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 “John C. Wolf” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Stained glass window panel
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Stained glass window: First communion
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

A proposed church
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Floor plan, Episcopal church at Friendship, N.Y.
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Front entrance group stained glass windows
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Dagger with Scabbard
Wolf Paller · ca. 1575

Stained glass: hall window
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

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

Mural design: Rowena, Cedric, Athelstane
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Stained glass window
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Christ and the Magdalen
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Ceiling light suggestions for a music room
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist
C. C. · ca. 1640, with 18th century additions

Stained glass window: Christ and Peter
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Stained glass window: Young Christ among the doctors
John C. Wolf · 1890–1900
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. 8495 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. 1230753 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 17:44 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.