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 “Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph
Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century · second half 16th century

Portrait of Isabel Erskine, Countess of Mar
Artist not stated in the record · 1798

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Bartmann jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Portrait of a Man
Netherlandish Painter

Album of Prints: Berlines by Janel and Two Other Coaches
Janel, French, active 18th century · 1760-1790

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Band
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Musk Cat
Uto Gyoshi · mid- to late 16th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Birth of Cupid
Master of Flora

Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass
Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century · 1650–60

Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch

Stove tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

The Arrival in Bethlehem
Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Euphorbia serpens Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1922

The Last Supper
Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Aurora, goddess of dawn
"In Castel Durante" Painter · 1528

Design for Brooch with Apollo
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dish (piatto): Vulcan forging an arrow for Cupid
the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530

Necklace design: Project for a rincauex to be engraved on metal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dish (coppa): The satyr Silenus on an Ass
the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530–35

Design for brooch with round diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 3531 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. 2867616 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 12:01 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.