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 “Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1405

Design for a Chapel Wall
Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Christ and the adulterous woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Adoration of the Shepherds
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Saint Michael and the Dragon
Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Altar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Christ on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

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

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Book-Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1210–20

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11
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. 349 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. 7484328 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 13:01 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.