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. 22 shown for “William E. Tucker, 1801 - 1857” — 51 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:32 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 Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Franklin Pierce
William E. Tucker, 1801 - 1857 · 1853

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

William Henry Harrison
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1841

Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2004

"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act
Louis Maurer · 1860

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2004

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1910

The True Peace Commissioners
Currier & Ives · 1865

Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1910

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1)
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · November , 1857

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2006

Haystacks: Autumn
Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 2002

Ladona julia
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2006
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1360539 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-08 19:32 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.