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. 22 shown for “Memorial Portrait of Catharine Schultz (1789-1832)” — 58 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Memorial Portrait of Catharine Schultz (1789-1832)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1836

Catharine Lewis
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · 1881

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Catharine Lewis
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Catharine Lewis
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Odalisque in Grisaille
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1824–34

Catharine Williams and William Mead
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)
Gustav Klimt · 1899

Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses
Horace Vernet · 1820

Olaudah Equiano
Daniel Orme, 1766 - 1832 · 1789

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Anne Catharine Hoof Green
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1769

Elijah Boardman
John Ramage · ca. 1790

Jared Sparks
Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · 1832

Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia
Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606

Celebrated Authors
Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Towel cover
Maria Schultz · 1838

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Richard Morris Hunt
Karl Theodore Bitter · 1891, cast 1892
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 2866093 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:29 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.