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. 12 shown for “Susan Reed Ruddick” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Wild Goose Chase Quilt
Susan Reed Ruddick · 1851

Bassoon
William Milhouse · early 19th century

Still Life
William Michael Harnett · 1888

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Wheat Field
Vincent van Gogh · July 1888

The Zouave
Vincent van Gogh · ca. June 20, 1888

Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Vincent van Gogh · ca. July 15, 1888

Plate for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery"
Edgar Degas · 1879–80

Ecce Homo (Christ with the Reed)
Eugène Delacroix · 1833

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1530–40

Westernmost Colossus of the Temple of Re, Abu Simbel
Maxime Du Camp · 1850

Frederick Langenheim Looking at Talbotypes
W. & F. Langenheim · ca. 1849–51
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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:10 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.