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 “Rembrandt” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 04:04 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1665–67

Rembrandt Peale
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Rembrandt Peale
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1818

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

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1660

Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Rembrandt Peale
William J. Pierce, flourished 1851 - 1870 · October 15, 1857

Satire on Art Criticism
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1644

Self Portrait of Rembrandt
Artist not stated in the record · 1795

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1634–35

Titian and Rembrandt Peale
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

Man in a Turban
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Rembrandt Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1644

Rembrandt Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Rembrandt Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Cottage among Trees
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

The Father of the Jewish Bride
Artist not stated in the record · 1770

Bellona
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Rembrandt Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Rembrandt with Plumed Hat and Lowered Sabre
Artist not stated in the record · 1634
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. 996 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. 209 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-26 04:04 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.