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. 23 shown for “Satirical Print: The Suitor” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Satirical Print: The Suitor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci)
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · before 1805

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Transubstantiantion Satirized
Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800 · 1794

Jesus on the Mount of Olives
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Der Sündenfall des XIX Jahrhunderts
Lotte

The scourging
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Jesus before Pilate
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

MOMUS
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

The washing of hands
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1785

The mocking of Christ
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Jesus confronting his detractors
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Oratory Chapel
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Carrying the cross
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Dees Aap Zwetstop Zyn Zalve
Pool, M (atthys)?

Jesus before Annas
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52
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. 3294 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1218456 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 05:12 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.