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Images / art

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 “L. Schamer, active c. 1870” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:33 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Representative Women, by L. Schamer, active c. 1870

Representative Women

L. Schamer, active c. 1870 · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
James L. Edwards, by L. Wieser, active c. 1881

James L. Edwards

L. Wieser, active c. 1881 · c. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee, by J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881

Robert E. Lee

J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Flag That Waved One Hundred Years by E.P. & L. Restein, by E.P. & L. Restein

The Flag That Waved One Hundred Years by E.P. & L. Restein

E.P. & L. Restein · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Ambrose Powell Hill, by J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881

Ambrose Powell Hill

J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Fritillaria Imperialis Foliis Aureo Variegatis, Plate 68 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Fritillaria Imperialis Foliis Aureo Variegatis, Plate 68 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Madonna of Humility, the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Pietà, by Bartolomeo Vivarini

The Madonna of Humility, the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Pietà

Bartolomeo Vivarini · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Pancratium Illyricum, Plate 116 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Pancratium Illyricum, Plate 116 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Torah finials (rimonim), by Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta"

Pair of Torah finials (rimonim)

Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta" · ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Alstroemeria Chilensis Varr., Plate 104 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Alstroemeria Chilensis Varr., Plate 104 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Iris Reticulata, from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Iris Reticulata, from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Lilium Thunbergianum Aureum Maculatum, Plate 76 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Lilium Thunbergianum Aureum Maculatum, Plate 76 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Pink, by Hans Memling

Young Woman with a Pink

Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Fritillaria Imperalis Maximus, Plate 34 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Fritillaria Imperalis Maximus, Plate 34 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano · 1420

Public domainThe Met
Calochorti Spec. Div., Plate 75 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem", by Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

Calochorti Spec. Div., Plate 75 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 78 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. 2205310 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 01:33 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.