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. 20 shown for “Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum” — 48 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland)
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1645-1650

Mary Villiers, Dutchess of Lennox and Richmond
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645–50

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1650

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen)
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645

Portrait of Gerard Seghers, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630

Lucas and Cornelius van Wael
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1646

Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

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

Portrait of Josse de Momper, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1660

Frans Francken I (1542–1616)
Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Adam van Noort, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan Sanders van Hemessen · early 17th century

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Portrait of Jan Snellinx, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1636

Portrait of Paulus Pontius, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3072763 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 08:15 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.