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Images / art

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 “Johann Gottlieb Müller” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:27 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Watch, by Johann Gottlieb Müller

Watch

Johann Gottlieb Müller · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800

George Washington

Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800 · c. 1775-80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basset Horn in F, by Johann Gottlieb Freyer

Basset Horn in F

Johann Gottlieb Freyer · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hoopoe (Wiedehoppe) (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Hoopoe (Wiedehoppe) (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Johann Gottlieb Glume, German, 1711 - 1778

Portrait of a Gentleman

Johann Gottlieb Glume, German, 1711 - 1778 · 1740-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wagtail (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Wagtail (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Soup Tureen, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Soup Tureen

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain and basin, by Meissen Manufactory

Fountain and basin

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Plate 2 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Plate 2 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lioness (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Lioness (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Realto Bridge, Court of Justice, Public German Warehouse, by John Bowles, British, active 1724 - 1756

Realto Bridge, Court of Justice, Public German Warehouse

John Bowles, British, active 1724 - 1756 · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Public domainThe Met
Chara canescens Loisel.

Chara canescens Loisel.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Samuel Rösel, by Ludwig Emil Grimm

Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Samuel Rösel

Ludwig Emil Grimm

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia montana Bruch & Schimp.

Grimmia montana Bruch & Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waxwing (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Waxwing (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Public domainThe Met
Bryum botteri C. Mohr

Bryum botteri C. Mohr

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Bunker's Hill (June 17, 1775), by Johann Gotthard Müller

The Battle of Bunker's Hill (June 17, 1775)

Johann Gotthard Müller · 1788–98

Public domainThe Met
Ode on the Spring, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Ode on the Spring

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astrolabe, by Regiomontanus

Astrolabe

Regiomontanus · 1462

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Title Page

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 146 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. 13224 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 13:27 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.