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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 “Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar
Artist not stated in the record · dated 963 AH/1556 CE

Sultan Murad and a Consort
Attributed here to Manohar (active 1582–ca. 1624) · ca. 1597

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Malvina Pray
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Maulana Azhar · ca. 1430

Malvina Pray Florence
John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867 · 1853-60

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Praying
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Malvina Pray Florence
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1857

Portrait of a Man
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the Tarikh-i-Alfi
Basawan · ca. 1592 - 1594

Portrait of the Emperor Akbar
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Portrait of Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

"Bahram Gur on the Chase", Folio 10r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Alexander II
D. J. Pound, active 1842 - 1877 · c. 1850

"How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580-1600

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

On-sáw-kie, The Sauk, in the Act of Praying
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Portrait of the Emperor Charles V
Unknown · 1530–35

"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–1770
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. 49 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. 2861687 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 2026-08-28 15:12 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.