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 “Baptism” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Baptism
William P. Chappel · 1870s

Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 1940

The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Baptism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

The Baptism of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Sampler and baptismal record
Artist not stated in the record · 1773

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh
Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1928

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Design for Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Baptismal Bowl
Oliver Trask · 1830–40

Vignette, Baptism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

The Baptism of Christ
Sébastien Bourdon · ca. 1650

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

The Baptism of Christ
Nicolás Enríquez · 1773

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Fraktur: Baptismal Certificate of Maria Schaeffer
P. Otto · 1820

Pendant with the Baptism of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century, and 1920–34

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Roundel with the Baptism of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · 1480–90

Baptism of Christ
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 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. 243 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. 133 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 02:02 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.