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 “Juan González, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

The Nativity
Juan González, 17th century · 1662

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497
Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2019

Saint John the Baptist
Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Amphilophium stamineum (Lam.) L.G. Lohmann
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1957

The Virgin of Carmen and the Souls of Purgatory with St. Joseph and the Prophet Elijah
Juan Francisco de Aguilera · ca. 1720

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2019

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 2019

María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · 1646

Phacelia crenulata Torr. ex S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 2019

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 2019

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

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 2019

Doña Marianna Stampa Parravicina (born 1612), Condesa di Segrate
Spanish Painter

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 2019

Portrait of a Man
Spanish (Andalusian) Painter

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2019

Bullfight in a Divided Ring
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2019

The Supper at Emmaus
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray var. canescens
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 2019
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. 256 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 84723 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-01 22:17 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.