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. 16 shown for “Unidentified (Puerto Rican)” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jíbaro Guitar
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th Century

Nino con Cotorra de Juguete
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1830-1850

Portrait of Nicolás Matías Fernández Méndez
José Campeche · ca. 1800

Portrait of a Gentleman
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1810

The Trinity
José Campeche · ca. 1790

Caballero con lentes de la familia Canals
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1840-1855

Rattle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865–89

Joven criolla
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1835-1850

Caballero desconocido con bigote
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

Virgen de Monserrate
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1775-1825

Soldado desconocido
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

Santa Barbara
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1680-1690

Dama con vestido blanco
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

Caballero de la familia Figueras Suro
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

Ninos de la familia Canals
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

Dama rubia de la familia Canals
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1835-1840
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. 56 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 105910 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 22:52 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.