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. 24 shown for “Jan Sanders van Hemessen” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan Sanders van Hemessen · early 17th century

Poa annua L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Commelina caroliniana Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1992

The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Commelina diffusa Burm. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1992

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1992

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Wimmeria mexicana (DC.) Lundell
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1992

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Cardiospermum cuchujaquense Ferrucci & Acev.-Rodr.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1992

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53
Euphorbia helioscopia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

The Holy Family
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Veronica persica Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

Man in Prayer
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Cardamine hirsuta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Acer rubrum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

Man in a Turban
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Acer rubrum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Viola bicolor Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 2013
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 531702 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 09:54 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.