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 “M. Schmid” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tankard
M. Schmid · early 18th century
Phyllanthus helenae M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1818
Phyllanthus dzumacensis M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1951

Clearing in a Wooded Landscape
Marco Ricci · 1676–1730
Phyllanthus valeriae M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1951

The Virgin Immaculate with the Christ Child
Giuseppe Cades · 1770
Phyllanthus loranthoides var. ripicola M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1960

The Nativity
South Netherlandish Painter
Phyllanthus yvettae M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1955

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
Phyllanthus chrysanthus var. micrantheoides (Baill.) M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1950

Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Phyllanthus chrysanthus var. micrantheoides (Baill.) M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Dec 1950

Allegory of Art
Peter Schmidt von Lichtenberg · 1609
Phyllanthus mouensis M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1950

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532
Phyllanthus montis-fontium M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1951

Portrait of a Man (Sir Ralph Sadler?)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1535
Phyllanthus longeramosus Guillaumin & M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1951

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532–35
Phyllanthus chrysanthus var. micrantheoides (Baill.) M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1951

Shrine of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300
Phyllanthus chrysanthus var. micrantheoides (Baill.) M. Schmid
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1950
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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1180288 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 03:07 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.