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 “Bit Boss with Adam and Eve” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Adam and Eve
Artist not stated in the record · 1504

Bit Boss with Adam and Eve
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

Adam
Tullio Lombardo · ca. 1490–95

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Eve
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1881, cast 1910

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1789

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Expulsion of Adam & Eve by James S. Baillie
Baillie, James S. · ca 1846

Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer · 1504

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1729

Adam; Eve
Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini · ca. 1520

Adam and Eve
Artist not stated in the record · 1543

Adam and Eve Hide Themselves, from The Story of Adam and Eve
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1729

Curb Bit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Curb Bit
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1812

Display dish with the Temptation of Adam and Eve
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1799

The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1710
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. 220 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. 1533257 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 08:33 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.