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 “Angel with Blue dress (tattered) with detachable wings” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Angel with Blue dress (tattered) with detachable wings
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–mid-19th century

Panel
Bannister Hall Printworks · 1806

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Dress panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–89

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother
Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Nurse's uniform dress worn by Pauline Brown Payne
Artist not stated in the record · 1944

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Suit, Flying, Blue Angels, United States Navy, Scott Kartvedt
Flight Suits, Ltd. · ca. 2000

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Welcome Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1615

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Blue cloche with detached brim
Unidentified · ca. 1960

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 16th-early 17th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Coral collared dress with embellishments and detachable train
Mme. Berthe · 1930s-1950s

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Textile
Schwartz-Huguenin · mid-19th century

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Textile
Schwartz-Huguenin · mid-19th century

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 39 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. 345254 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-10 12:31 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.