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 Jacob van Vien, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Portrait of Jacob van Vien, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

The Holy Family, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

A Dutch Burgomaster, after Bartholomeus van der Helst, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Portrait of a Young Woman, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

The Holy Family with Shepherds
Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Head of a Young Girl, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Title Page, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Repose, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Nicolaes Berchem the Younger, Dutch, 1649 - 1672 · 1871

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

Hille Bobbe, the Sorceress , from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York "
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Interior of a Dutch Cottage, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Ornamental Vase Design
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760
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. 139 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. 2992061 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 11:38 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.