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 “Photograph of a man in a dark colored jacket” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Photograph of a man in a dark colored jacket
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Photograph of a bearded man wearing a dark colored suit jacket
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Photograph of a man with a mustache wearing a dark jacket
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bronze man and centaur
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Photograph of a U.S. Army corporal holding a cane
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1900

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Cabinet card of Charles, Jake, and Tom Young photographed by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Tintype photograph of a man identified as James Turner, with two women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Gelatin silver print of of five men in suit jackets and bow ties
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Armor (Gusoku)
Bamen Tomotsugu · 18th century

Photograph of a man wearing a dark colored suit with a pocket watch in his vest
Artist not stated in the record · 1886-1900

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Card photograph of three unidentified men wearing ribbons on their jackets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Photograph of a man with a beard wearing a dark colored suit and vest
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century - early 20th century

Man in a Turban
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Photograph of two men and two women
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 7222 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 7484570 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 08:49 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.