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. 12 shown for “Martin van Meytens the Younger” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:38 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.

Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794) and Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794)
Martin van Meytens the Younger · probably early 1760s

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Portrait of a Woman of the Slosgin Family of Cologne
Barthel Bruyn the Younger · 1557

Margherita Gonzaga (1591–1632), Princess of Mantua
Frans Pourbus the Younger

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615
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. 46 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. 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 00:38 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.