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 “Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)
Rachel Ruysch · 1692

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · June 18, 1862

Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · January 6, 1863

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · January 6, 1863

Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · April 17, 1865

The Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · November 4, 1864

The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955)
Auguste Renoir · 1888

Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1862

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · January 27, 1862

The Letter
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Letter remnant
Artist not stated in the record · September 30, 1862

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 30, 1862

Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue
Edouard Manet · 1880

Letter to David Walters from Rachel Ward
Artist not stated in the record · July 28, 1859

The Lamentation
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) · 1603

Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1862

The Siesta
Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

Letter to David Walters from Rachel Walters
Artist not stated in the record · October 7, 1862
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. 553 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1165040 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 14:20 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.