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. 13 shown for “Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830” — 15 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Young Boy
Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830 · 1815

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Alexander Murray, Esq. of the United States Navy
David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

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

David Livingston
Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830 · ca. 1800

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Master Peters
Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830 · 1804

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Portrait of Mendes Cohen
Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830 · 1818

Mezzetin
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Triumph of Stoffel Brinkerhoff, on His Return from His Conquests in the East
John Gadsby Chapman, born Washington, DC 1808-died Brooklyn, NY 1889 · 1835

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 01:09 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.