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 “Photograph of a wooden building” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

Composite Papyrus Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–30

The Death of Munrow
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Palm Column of Sahure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Doorway and Staircase Enclosure
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
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. 1170 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 02:21 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.