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 “Otto van Veen, Flemish, 1556 - 1629” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:13 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a terminal figure of Charity
Otto van Veen, Flemish, 1556 - 1629 · 1576–1578

Christ Praying in the Garden of Olives
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615

Bythoceratina hispida (Van Veen)
Artist not stated in the record

Spinoleberis macerrima (Van Veen)
Artist not stated in the record

Jacob at the Well
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels
Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658 · 1614

Adoration of the Kings
Unidentified (Flemish) · 15th century

Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger
Marco Sadeler · 1606

Portrait of Laevinus Torrentius, Bishop of Antwerp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700-1730

Tuna fishing
Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1596 or after

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580

Trapping deer
Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1595
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 62693 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-02 11:13 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.