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. 12 shown for “Johann Christoph Jaeckel and Christian Jaeckel” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Square Piano
Johann Christoph Jaeckel and Christian Jaeckel · 1790

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Johann Liss · ca. 1626

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
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. 47 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:37 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.