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 “Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:42 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 Hunter and the Dogs
Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio · 1636

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1636

Goats and a Shepherdess Winding Skeins
Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio · 1636

Philip II
Pieter Van Gunst, c. 1667 - 1724 · n.d.a.

Landscape with Cattle and a Milkmaid
Jan van Noordt · 1644

Portrait of Louis van Boisot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Self Portrait of Rembrandt
Artist not stated in the record · 1795

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Pyrometer
Maison Pixii · ca 1820-1830

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

William II
Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760 · 1749

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Henry Frederick
Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760 · 1749

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

E. Tow O Koam Coning van de Rivier Volkeren
Pieter Schenk, 1660 - 1711 · 1710

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Matthew the Evangelist
Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene
Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint John the Evangelist
Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Summer
Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 56829 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 08:42 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.