Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 14 shown for “Jan Josef Horemans the Elder” — 43 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Carpenter at Work
Jan Josef Horemans the Elder · n.d.

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

The Painter
Jan Josef Horemans the Elder · ca. 1730
Tragia cordata Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Liatris squarrosa (L.) Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 1878

Symphyotrichum patens var. patentissimum (Lindl.) G.L. Nesom
Artist not stated in the record · 1872

Jan Lutma, Goldsmith
Artist not stated in the record · 1656

The Fall of Man
Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · ca. 1580

Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and signed pupil agreement
Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915

Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder
Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

Robert Edward Lee
John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895 · 1876

The Elder's Daughter
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1877

Myotis lucifugus carissima
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1914
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1658190 matched · 40 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:02 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.