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 “Willem de Passe” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Counter box with thirty-two counters
Willem de Passe · 1632–49

James I of England/ James VI of Scotland
Unidentified Artist · 1625-40?

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware
Willem Claesz Heda · 1635

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

Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess
Crispijn de Passe the Younger · 1635-40

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 2004

Saint Benedict
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1888

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Tasmannia piperita (Hook. f.) Miers
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1966

Man with a Mixing Bowl
Joseph Willems · 1736

Jasione montana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1930

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Laocoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1671

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Carpotroche longifolia (Poepp.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1981

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
Pentace triptera Mast.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1979

Queen Nefertari Playing Senet
Nina de Garis Davies · original ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Grewia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1979

The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824
Grewia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1979

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
Grewia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1985
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. 935 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 651846 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 02:16 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.