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. 18 shown for “Block with cartouche of Alexander the Great or his son Alexander IV of Macedon” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Block with cartouche of Alexander the Great or his son Alexander IV of Macedon
Artist not stated in the record · 332–305 BCE

Les Chinois
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Ceiling Design, Alexander and the Family of Darius, the Clemency of Alexander, Sala di Alessandro, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Two Circular and Octagonal Painting for Ceiling: Deeds of Alexander the Great
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1795

Armet
LIONARDO · ca. 1440

Mausoleum for family of Alexander the Great
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, an Elephant, and a Lion
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1883, remodeled 1905

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

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Saber
Artist not stated in the record · 1522–66

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 184 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3097373 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:39 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.