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. 17 shown for “Willem Jansz Blaeu” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:03 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 Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Massacre of the Innocents
Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, 1550 - 1612 · ca. 1585-86

Celestial globe
Willem Jansz Blaeu · after 1621

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

The Rhinoceros
Albrecht Dürer · after 1620

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)
Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1660

A Musical Party
Gabriël Metsu · 1659
Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula...
Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz · ca 1666

Titlepage, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 1
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Bathsheba Combing Her Hair
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1615

The Charcoal-Burner, from "Verscheyden Landtschapjes" (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 9
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Het Huys te Kleef bij Haarlem, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 3
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Two Plank Hedges, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 6
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

The House with the Stepped Gable, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 7
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

The Road at the Edge of the Forest, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 4
Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616–17
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. 27 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. 4022 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:03 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.