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 “An oratory dedicated to the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:04 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 Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

An oratory dedicated to the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100
![Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8CEE466C0AF22-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th century

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, after Titian (right sheet)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Standing Virgin and Child
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Designs for Decoration of a Chapel and Garden Statuary
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

Bust of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

The Genius of the Painter
Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1645–47

Double Virginal
Lodewijck Grouwels · 1600

An altar dedicated to Apollo
Artist not stated in the record · 1815

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

The Virgin and Child with an Angel
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Rectangular Octave Virginal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Dedication Page
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Frame for the Title or the Dedication of a Music Book, or a Program of or an Invitation to a Concert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Ascension of the Virgin
Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino, Italian, 1572 - 1645 · early 17th century
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. 2281 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. 1758279 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 2026-09-02 10:04 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.