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 “John Stewart at Stony Point, United States, 1779” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:31 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.

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Pietà
Carlo Crivelli · 1476

The Present State of Great Britain
James Phillips · 1779

The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

A South West View of the City of New York, in North America
Pierre Charles Canot · ca. 1768

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Saint George
Carlo Crivelli · 1472

Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · ca. 1350

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 5 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 2026-09-05 09:31 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.