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 “Love Cares'd” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love
Michele Desubleo · 1665–75

Love Cares'd
Artist not stated in the record · 1783

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Heliotropium curassavicum subsp. obovatum (DC.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1953

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1893

The Dispatch of the Messenger
François Boucher · 1765

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1957

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1956

Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon
Netherlandish Painter

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1922

The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor · ca. 1640

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1879

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record

Divan (Anthology) of Hafiz
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 18th century

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1951

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Thinopyrum junceiforme (Á. Löve & D. Löve) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1932
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. 80 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. 13174 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-02 13:30 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.