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. 18 shown for “Robert Street, 17 Jan 1796 - 1865” — 58 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Elisha Tyson
Robert Street, 17 Jan 1796 - 1865 · c. 1823

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

Sarah Sommer Sims
Robert Street, born Germantown, PA 1796-died Philadelphia, PA 1865 · 1838

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Robert Richford Roberts
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

The Bathing Pool
Hubert Robert · 1777–79

George Washington to Anne Louise DuBarry franked "President U.S." folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · August 1796

A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449

Portrait of Mrs. Robert Kermit
James Earl, born Paxton, MA 1761-died Charleston, SC 1796 · ca. 1790

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Valeriana boliviana Britton
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1902

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

A Village Street: Dardagny
Camille Corot · 1852, 1857, or 1863

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro
James Gillray · May 5, 1796

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
John Hoppner
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 2049015 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 16:19 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.