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. 22 shown for “Portrait of Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)” — 62 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Portrait of Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

Portrait of General Juan Pablo Anaya
Unknown · ca. 1830

Pablo Casals
Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1870 - 1928 · 1914

Portrait of an Old Man
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1595–1600

Pablo Casals
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Pablo Casals
Unidentified Artist · 1911

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Briza minor L.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1896

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1896

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Benjamin Lay
William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791 · c. 1750-58

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Allophylus racemosus Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 2010

The Lamentation
Luis de Morales · ca. 1560

Platyptilia cooleyi
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1888

Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Adiantum decoratum Maxon & Weath.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1986

Juan Bery
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Juan Beaumonde Livaudais
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2892251 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-10 20:40 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.