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 of Christ” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:24 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 Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Baptism of Christ
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

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

Baptism of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

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

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

The Baptism of Christ
Sébastien Bourdon · ca. 1650

Baptism of Christ
Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century

The Baptism of Christ
Nicolás Enríquez · 1773

Baptism of Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

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

Title page, from "Recueil de Toutes Sortes d'Ornements Propres à Orner Les Eglises Maisons et Jardins"
Artist not stated in the record · 1652-1700

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

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

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

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

Panel with the Baptism of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1886

Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

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

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 1940
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. 4492 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. 2863960 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 09:24 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.