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. 11 shown for “The School-Boy's Vision” — 64 records examined, 53 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:49 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 Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

The School-Boy's Vision
Artist not stated in the record

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
Alejandro Ramos's Examination Paper from the Binondo Boys School, Manila, Philippines circa 1900
Ramos, Alejandro · ca 1898

By the Seashore
Auguste Renoir · 1883

My Mother As I Visioned When a Boy
George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · 1935

At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
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. 2606 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 284 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 02:49 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.