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 “Nicolaes de Bruyn” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Adam and Eve in Paradise
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1631

Koeleria pyramidata subsp. arenaria (Dumort.) Castrov. & Quintanar
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1901
![[Frames for Mirrors], by Nicolaes de Bruyn](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP328097.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Frames for Mirrors]
Nicolaes de Bruyn · ca. 1600

Trichoglossus haematodus intermedius
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1911

Vase of Flowers with Two Birds
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1590–1656

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/4/66

Two Genii Riding Rams
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1594

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/4/66

Two Genii with Two Dogs Fighting
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1594
Muhlenbergia peruviana (P. Beauv.) Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1976

Two Genii with a Skull and Grasshoppers
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1594
Muhlenbergia vaginata Swallen
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1976

Justice, from the Cardinal Virtues
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1648–56
Muhlenbergia peruviana (P. Beauv.) Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1976

Title Page, from Two Genii with Animals
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1594
Muhlenbergia orophila Swallen
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1976

Two Genii with a Cat and a Rat
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1594
Muhlenbergia orophila Swallen
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1976

Charity, from the Cardinal Virtues
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1648–56
Muhlenbergia vaginata Swallen
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1976

Hope, from the Cardinal Virtues
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1648–56

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 2007

Faith, from the Cardinal Virtues
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1648–56

Pedro Luis Nicolas de Rivery Fouet
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04
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. 2007 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. 616264 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.