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 Hans Makart” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Portrait of Hans Makart
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

The Entrance of Charles V Into Antwerp
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Portrait of Maximilian I
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1518–19

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Self-Portrait / Verso: Sketch
Hans Richter, American, b. Berlin, Germany, 1888–1976 · 1909

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Henry Ford
Hans Wollner, 1899 - 1946 · 1937 (cast 1963)

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Portrait of George Hans Boehmer (1842-1895)
Davis Photographic Studio · 1887

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

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

Portrait of an Old Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1475

TISH-CO-HAN. A DELAWARE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

James John Davis
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1927

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 80–100 CE

Tish-co-han
Unidentified Artist · 1837

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905
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. 604 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. 2870821 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 09:25 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.