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 “Pieter de Hooch” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:20 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.

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1663–65

The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Paying the Hostess
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1670

Interior with a Young Couple
Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65

A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1665–75

Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1667–70

A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657–58

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz · 1628

The Last Supper
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28

The Farrier
Aert van der Neer · early or mid-1650s

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Sentimental Conversation
Quirijn van Brekelenkam · early 1660s
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. 422 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 20:20 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.