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 Friedrich Overbeck” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:17 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.

The Banishment of Hagar
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1839–41

Head of a Bearded Man
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · ca. 1820–25

Left Arm and Shoulders of a Man Seen from the Back
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · early 19th century

A Drapery Study of a Seated Man
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · early 19th century

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1848

The Lamentation
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1840–45

The Entombment
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1850

The Calling of the Apostles St. James and St. John
Friedrich August Pflugfelder · 1839

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Augustus the Strong
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713

Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony
Paul Preuning · ca. 1547–50

The Entombment
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 18th century
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. 278 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-08-26 18:17 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.