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. 16 shown for “William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885” — 45 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Daughter of William Page (Probably Mary Page)
William Page · ca. 1840

Shakespeare Reading
W. Kurtz, born Germany 1833-died Far Rockaway, NY 1904 · 1874-1875

Troy from Mount Ida (No. 11 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1821–22

Sarah Leaning on a Bannister
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1840

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Charles Sumner
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1874

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Shakespeare Reading
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1873-1874

Head of an Elderly Man
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · n.d.

Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870

(An Ecorche, front view)
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1849-1853

(An Ecorche, Rear View)
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1853

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

Moses Commanding the Waters of the Red Sea to Separate
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

Prometheus
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus)
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1857
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 55 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 09:48 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.