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 “Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603” — 37 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:25 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 Routing of Focker and the German Troops from Antwerp
Maerten de Vos · ca. 1580

The Crucifixion
Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 · ca. 1590

Saint Michael the Archangel
Ignacio de Ries · 1640s

Noah's Ark
Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · 1657

Holofernes before Nebuchadnezzar (Judith 2:4-13)
Maerten de Vos · 1587

Discord: The Good and the Bad Household
Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637 · 1589

Captain de Bours handing over the Keys to the Citadel of Antwerp to the Estates General
Maerten de Vos · mid-16th–early 17th century

St. Cecilia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Ecce Homo
Maerten de Vos · 1584

Figure of Europe
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Jonah Cast on Shore by the Fish, from "The Story of Jonah"
Maerten de Vos · ca. 1585

Design for a Frontispiece, Allegory of America
Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 · ca. 1590

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Figure of America
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Alms-giving, from "Christian Virtues"
Raphael Sadeler I · 1589

Figure of Africa
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Fiducia, from "Virtues Conquering Vices"
Johann Sadeler I · 1579

The king has his servants invite guests to the wedding party, from the series 'Parable of the Wedding Feast'
Johan Wierix, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 · late 16th century

Dish with Pomona
Bernard Palissy · late 16th or early 17th century

Box and game pieces
Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595 · late 17th century

Grammatica, from "The Seven Liberal Arts"
Johann Sadeler I · ca. 1570–1600

Box and game pieces
Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595 · late 17th century

Arithmetica, from "The Seven Liberal Arts"
Johann Sadeler I · ca. 1570–1600

Figure of Asia
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-09-03 23:25 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.