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 Beaver” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
King George II (1683–1760)
John van Beaver · 1732–35

Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Sagittaria latifolia Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Cyperus echinatus (L.) Alph. Wood
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

Rip Van Winkle Returned
John Rogers · 1871; cast 1871 or after

Scleria oligantha Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

Van Rensselaer Heir and Enslaved Youth
John Heaton · ca. 1730

Elymus virginicus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Eleocharis cellulosa Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer
Jan van Goyen · 1646

Typha angustifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Sabatia angularis (L.) Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Helianthemum rosmarinifolium Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018

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

Rudbeckia hirta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2018
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. 1614 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 295727 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 00:30 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.