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. 16 shown for “Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Jacob Jennings Brown
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1815

Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself
Artist not stated in the record · 1861

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

John Jacob Astor
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1825

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 28, 1808

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

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

Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
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. 101 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. 3432455 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:06 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.