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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Representative Women
L. Schamer, active c. 1870 · 1870

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

James L. Edwards
L. Wieser, active c. 1881 · c. 1881

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

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

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

The Flag That Waved One Hundred Years by E.P. & L. Restein
E.P. & L. Restein · 1876

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

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

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Fritillaria Imperialis Foliis Aureo Variegatis, Plate 68 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

The Madonna of Humility, the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Pietà
Bartolomeo Vivarini · ca. 1465

Pancratium Illyricum, Plate 116 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

Pair of Torah finials (rimonim)
Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta" · ca. 1740–50

Alstroemeria Chilensis Varr., Plate 104 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Iris Reticulata, from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Lilium Thunbergianum Aureum Maculatum, Plate 76 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Fritillaria Imperalis Maximus, Plate 34 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

Madonna and Child with Angels
Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano · 1420

Calochorti Spec. Div., Plate 75 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881
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.