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. 19 shown for “Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891” — 32 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 11:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Teapot
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1852

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Sugar Bowl
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1852

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Creamer
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1852

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Nutmeg Grater
Thomas Phipps, English, d. 1823 · 1812

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture
Powell & Co. · 1865

Dish of Apples
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1876–77

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)
Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1519

Paulus Verschuur (1606–1667)
Frans Hals · 1643

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 11:22 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.