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. 17 shown for “Justus Sustermans” — 48 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Justus Sustermans, from "The Iconography"
Anthony van Dyck · 17th century

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise
Jean Morin

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise
Jean Morin

Reverend Justus Henry Christian Helmuth
John Eckstein, 1736 - 1817 · c. 1795

Ferdinando II de' Medici (1610–1670) as a Boy
Justus Sustermans

Nathanael Greene
Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1780

Portrait of a Florentine Lady
Justus Sustermans · after 1620

Benjamin Franklin
Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1778-84

Cosimo II de' Medici (1590–1621), Grand Duke of Tuscany
Justus Sustermans · 1597–1681

George Washington
Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1775-90

A Cardinal's Procession
Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano) · 1621

Portrait of Jules Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1742–50

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Benjamin Franklin
Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1778-85

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman wearing a top hat and a fur stole
Justus C. Swan, American, 1849 - 1928 · ca. 1895
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 372 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 09:54 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.