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 “South Netherlandish Painter” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:05 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 Nativity
South Netherlandish Painter

The Dog of Goltzius
Artist not stated in the record · 1597

The Annunciation
South Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1597

Mourning Woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

The Destruction of Bel and his Temple
Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574 · 1556

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Judith, from the series "Heroes of the Old Testament"
Jacob Matham, Netherlandish, 1571–1631 · ca. 1590

Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Debora
Artist not stated in the record · 1588

The Annunciation
South German (Bavarian?) Painter · 1440–50

Male Portrait
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1783

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

Imago Equestris Francisco de Moncada
Stephanus Tofanelli · 1758-1833

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Cottage Interior
Artist not stated in the record · 1849

Relief of a Bishop
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1440

Portrait of Gellius de Bouma
Artist not stated in the record · 1629-1658

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Portrait of Theodoor Rombouts
Artist not stated in the record · 1630
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. 1462 matched · 24 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. 1917615 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-04 05:05 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.