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 “Seek No Further March” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Seek No Further March
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Pigeon post microform on paper
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480
The Resignation of Pres. Washington
Artist not stated in the record

The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Handbill for a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao 鍾離訪道圖
Traditionally attributed to Jing Hao (傳)荊浩 (ca. 870-ca.935) · 13th-14th century

Penitent Woman Anointing the Feet of Christ at the Table of Simon the Pharisee (Luke 7:36-50)
Biagio Pupini · 1511–51

Transatlantic cover to London, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1806

The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Clearing skies over Mount Hua 華嶽睛嵐圖
Formerly attributed to Fan Kuan (傳)范寬 (ca. 960-ca. 1030) · 13th-14th century

Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Left-handed baritone Mirafone
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 20th century

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Letter to Rachel Walters from John Louderback
Artist not stated in the record · May 27, 1865

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Catherine Vlasto
John Singer Sargent, American, b. Florence, Italy, 1856–1925 · 1897

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

The Flesh of Others
Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928 · (1883/cast c. 1890-1895)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515
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. 1113 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. 218579 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 2026-09-03 09:44 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.