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. 14 shown for “Portrait of the Wife of Georg Pencz (Imago Duxore Gregori Peins)” — 42 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:12 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 the Wife of Georg Pencz (Imago Duxore Gregori Peins)
Artist not stated in the record

Wife of Two Crows
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Portrait of Georg Pencz (Imago Gregori Peins)
Artist not stated in the record

Kah-béck-a, The Twin, Wife of Bloody Hand
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Wa-quóth-e-qua, The Buck's Wife, Wife of the Whale
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835

Joseph sold by his brothers, from the Story of Joseph
Georg Pencz, German, 1500–1550 · 1546

Wife of Kee-o-kúk
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835

Wife of The Six
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Mrs. George Catlin (Clara Bartlett Gregory)
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · ca. 1828

Mee-chéet-e-neuh, Wounded Bear's Shoulder, Wife of the Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1831

Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Eeh-nís-kim, Crystal Stone, Wife of the Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug That Creeps, Wife of Pigeon's Egg Head
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Tís-se-wóo-na-tís, She Who Bathes Her Knees, Wife of the Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3073133 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 06:12 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.