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 “The Man at the Window” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Window
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

The Man at the Window
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Drawing
Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1775

At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882

Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.
Artist not stated in the record · 1941

Jubal and Miriam
William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Window card for Bargain with Bullets
Million Dollar Productions, American, 1937 - 1940 · 1937

Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

The Organ and the Voice Once More Beneath Our Very Windows
Frederick Coffay Yohn, American, 1875–1933 · ca. 1901

Peonies Blown in the Wind
John La Farge · ca. 1880

Couple at a Window
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

View of the Interior of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn, Looking West Toward the Rose Window
Unknown · 1902

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Tintype of a man identified as "Uncle Charlie"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York
John La Farge · 1908–9

Design for One Floor of a Painted Facade
Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · 1580–1610

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Design for Elevation of a Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750
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. 6758 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. 1340531 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.