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 Van Noordt, n.d.” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Near Rome
John Van Noordt, n.d.

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

Louis XVII, King of France and Navarre
Nicolaus-Innocentius-Wilhelm-Clemens van Heideloff, German, born Stuttgart, Germany 1761-died The Hague, Netherlands 1837 · n.d.

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

Phacelia integrifolia var. texana (J.W. Voss) N.D. Atwood
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1938

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Winterlandschaft
C. Gunkel, n.d. · n.d.

Self-Portrait
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

John Peter Van Ness
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo
Anthony van Dyck · 1624

Martin Van Buren
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Van Ness Mansion
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, born Watsonville, CA 1890-died Los Angeles County, CA 1944 · n.d.

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Judith Langley
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands ca. 1570-died The Hague, Netherlands 1657 · n.d.

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

A Glimpse of the Ocean
Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, born Alkmaar, Netherlands 1829-died Paris, France 1904 · n.d.

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Edward Laurence, Esq.
Gerard Van Soest, German, born Westphalia 1637-died London, England 1681 · n.d.

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

John Van Buren
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Van Wyck Brooks
John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922 · 1909
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. 794 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. 293534 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 11:46 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.