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 “Robert Walter Weir” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Study for "The Agony in the Garden"
Robert Walter Weir

Robert Walter Weir
Unidentified Artist · c. 1876

Shipwreck
Robert Walter Weir

Prof. and Mrs. Robert Walter Weir
Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1878

Sketches (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Robert Walter Weir

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1868

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
Robert Walter Weir

Winfield Scott
Robert Walter Weir, 18 Jun 1803 - 1 May 1889 · c. 1855

General Winfield Scott
Robert Walter Weir · ca. 1855

(Moses Viewing the Promised Land)
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1860-1865

The Entrance to a Wood
Robert Walter Weir · 1836

Foraging
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Fruit
Julian Alden Weir · ca. 1888

Thomas Hamilton
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Robert C. Sands
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1829

Thomas Hamilton
Illman & Pilbrow, active New York City ca. 1829 -1836

The Dying Greek
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1830

St. Nicholas
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1837

Title Page: The New York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Embellished with Engravings and Music, Volume IX
Asher Brown Durand · 1831

Embarkation of the Pilgrims
Samuel Bellin, English, born London, England 1799-died London, England 1894 · n.d.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Church of the Holy Innocents, Highland Falls, New York
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1850

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Dr. Caius, Simple and Dame Quickly
Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · 1830
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. 799 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 219905 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.