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. 23 shown for “Philips Wouwerman” — 51 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Man and a Woman on Horseback
Philips Wouwerman · ca. 1653–54

Philip Henry Sheridan
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe
Philips Wouwerman · after 1646

Philip Henry Sheridan
Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879 · c. 1863-64

Horse Standing
Adam von Bartsch · 1803

Philip Henry Sheridan
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1865

An accident while traveling, a kneeling man fixing a broken saddle, a horse pissing at the left
Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1740–50

Philip Hone
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1826

Drawing the Eel
Salomon van Ruysdael · early 1650s
Philip Henry Sheridan
Thomas Buchanan Read, 12 Mar 1822 - 11 May 1872 · 1871

A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich
Wilhelm von Kobell · 1823

Philip Norborne Nicholas
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

A Riding School with a Visiting Family
Dirk Langendijk · 1778

Artist Conversing
Philip Evergood, 26 Oct 1901 - 11 Mar 1973 · 1962

Cavalier and Shepherd
Francesco Casanova

Hamilton Smith and Philip Hone
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Market by the Seashore
Salomon van Ruysdael · 1637

Philip Henry Sheridan
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1864

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Philip Henry Sheridan
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864

Peasants Dancing
Johannes Lingelbach · 1651

John Philip Sousa
George Frederick Scotson-Clark, 1873 - ? · c. 1895-1897

Philip Syng Physick
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1825
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6693 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 13:26 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.