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. 12 shown for “William Merritt Chase” — 24 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

At the Seaside
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1892

For the Little One
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1896

Carmencita
William Merritt Chase · 1890
![[Portrait of Alice Dieudonne Chase], by Alice Gerson Chase (Mrs. William Merritt Chase)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-387-016.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Portrait of Alice Dieudonne Chase]
Alice Gerson Chase (Mrs. William Merritt Chase) · ca. 1906

Lady in Black
William Merritt Chase · 1888

Alice Gerson in Prospect Park
William Merritt Chase · 1886

Fish
William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Bessie Potter
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1895

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
William Merritt Chase · 1885

Roland
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1902

Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase
William Merritt Chase · 1880–90 (?)

Edward Guthrie Kennedy
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1895
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. 352 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:53 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.