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 “Shoppell, active c. 1882” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child
Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Madonna and Child Enthroned
Carlo Crivelli · 1472

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve
Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Landscapes
Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

The Presentation in the Temple
Alvaro Pirez · ca. 1405–15

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2
Alexander Gardner · 1863

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1
Alexander Gardner · 1863

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Dr. Brian Walton (born about 1600, died 1661)
John Hoskins · 1657

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882
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. 63 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1041851 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 22:51 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.