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. 11 shown for “Leonhard Kern” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Deposition
Leonhard Kern · ca. 1640–50

Nude Women Wrestling
Leonhard Kern · mid-17th century

Girl
Leonhard Kern · ca. 1635, base possibly late 1830s

Female statuette
Leonhard Kern · 17th century

Lot and his Daughters
Leonhard Kern · 17th century

Galloping horse
Francesco Fanelli · second half of the 17th century

Hercules and Cacus
Michelangelo Buonarroti · 19th century?

Two men wrestling
Ferdinando Tacca · late 17th century?

Two women wrestling
Ferdinando Tacca · late 17th century?

The Arch in the Entryway of the Left Portal (Die Porten des Lobs); and the Outer Left Column of the Central Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18
Hans Springinklee · 1515

Maximilian as Architect; with a Statue of St. Leopold; and Busts of Maximilian's Ancestors and Relatives, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18
Albrecht Dürer · 1517/1518
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:31 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.