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. 18 shown for “Varley, Thomas P” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:08 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 Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Portrait of Philip Reese Uhler (1835-1913)
Varley, Thomas P · 1860

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Small Landscape (Dutch)
John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · n.d.

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

Landscape
John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · 1835

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Pemphigus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874

Pemphigus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

Grevillea patentiloba F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1976

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Bamborough Castle from the Northeast, with Holy Island in the Distance, Northumberland
John Varley · 1827

On the Thames at Hammersmith
John Varley · ca. 1836

Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan
Ibrahim Sultan · dated 830 AH/1427 CE

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
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. 5009 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 648215 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:08 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.