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. 12 shown for “Richard Principal Leitch” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

A Course of Water-Colour Painting with Twenty-Four Coloured Plates from Designs by R. P. Leitch
Richard Principal Leitch · 1886

After the Victory, from "Illustrated London News"
Richard Principal Leitch · August 2, 1873

Flight of the Queen of James II, from "Illustrated London News"
Richard Principal Leitch · August 3, 1872

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

Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595)
Carlo Dolci · 1645 or 1646

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Venus and the Lute Player
Titian · ca. 1565–70

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Marianne Dorothy Harland (1759–1785), Later Mrs. William Dalrymple
Richard Cosway

Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"
Ignaz Günther · ca. 1755

The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65
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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:05 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.