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 “Populus alba L.” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor of the Dukes of Alba
Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85
Populus alba L. x P. tremula L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1931

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo)
Luigi Crosio · 1870–71

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1914

Lotus Flower Inlay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Man of Sorrows
Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record

Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1805

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1900

The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
Saturnino Gatti · ca. 1490

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 187

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes
Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1930

Processional Crucifix
Pietro di Francesco Orioli · ca. 1480s

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1901

"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Abu'l Hasan · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 188

Cassone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–80 (rebuilt, with extensive replacements)

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1867

Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from "New designs for costumes" (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)
François Joullain · ca. 1721

Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1897
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1298300 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.