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 “Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master
Artist not stated in the record

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Santiago
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang
Sesson Shūkei · ca. 1555–61

San Juan Nepomuceno
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

The Adoration of the Christ Child
Master of Frankfurt · possibly 1496–1502

Edward P. Thorn Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

San Jose
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother
Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth"
Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919 · ca. 1903

Virgin and Child
Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

The Country Store
Edward Lamson Henry, born Charleston, SC 1841-died Ellenville, NY 1919 · 1885

Perfume bottle (one of six) (part of a set)
Louis Mailly · 1728–30

Portrait of Clara Fasano
Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946 · 1943

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Christ Appearing to Mary
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1885

The Arrival in Bethlehem
Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Madame Ferrebault's Prairie, above Prairie du Chien
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1836

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome
Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Cautivo de la Virgen de la Merced
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century
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. 616 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7484720 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 15:16 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.