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 “Wilhelm von Kobell” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich
Wilhelm von Kobell · 1823

Baron von Steuben
Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1735? - 1804 · 1780

Horsemen near Munich
Wilhelm von Kobell · 1830

Baron von Steuben
B. B. Ellis · 1783

Postilion on Horse in a Winter Landscape
Wilhelm von Kobell · ca. 1798

Adolph Von Steinwehr
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Austrian Soldiers
Wilhelm von Kobell · late 18th–19th century
Euphorbia seguieriana Neck.
Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 188-

Studies of Horsewomen
Wilhelm von Kobell · late 18th–mid-19th century

Polygala major Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1884

Three studies on a man on a saddle
Wilhelm von Kobell · late 18th–early 19th century

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
N. Wolff, French · 1823

Heraldic Panel of Wilhelm von Weitingen
Artist not stated in the record · 1518

Synthyris reniformis Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1906

Standing Virgin and Child
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Iberis amara L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1971

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Rumex bucephalophorus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1971

Denkmaler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien: nach den Zeichnungen der von Deiner Majestat dem Konige von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm IV Nach Diesen Landern Gesendeten und in den Jahren 1842–1845 Ausgefuhrten Wissenschaftlichen Expedition . . .
Richard Lepsius · 1913

Bust of August William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · ca. 1771

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465
Muhlenbergia vaginata Swallen
Artist not stated in the record

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)
Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460
Oedogonium rothii
Artist not stated in the record
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. 687 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 35215 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 2026-08-28 03:08 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.