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Images / art

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 “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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying

Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar

Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 963 AH/1556 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sultan Murad and a Consort, by Attributed here to Manohar (active 1582–ca. 1624)

Sultan Murad and a Consort

Attributed here to Manohar (active 1582–ca. 1624) · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"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

Public domainThe Met
Malvina Pray, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Malvina Pray

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Maulana Azhar

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Maulana Azhar · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Malvina Pray Florence, by John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867

Malvina Pray Florence

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Praying

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Praying

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Malvina Pray Florence, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Malvina Pray Florence

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Dieric Bouts

Portrait of a Man

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the Tarikh-i-Alfi, by Basawan

The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the Tarikh-i-Alfi

Basawan · ca. 1592 - 1594

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Emperor Akbar

Portrait of the Emperor Akbar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)

Portrait of Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur on the Chase", Folio 10r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

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

Nizami · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Alexander II, by D. J. Pound, active 1842 - 1877

Alexander II

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)

Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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, by Nizami

"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

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

On-sáw-kie, The Sauk, in the Act of Praying

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of the Emperor Charles V, by Unknown

Portrait of the Emperor Charles V

Unknown · 1530–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II

Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.