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 “Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record

Seated Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bodhidharma in meditation
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Design for a Painted Panel
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · ca. 1770

Buddha Seated in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Bodhidharma
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 17th century

Jain Svetambara Tirthankara in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 11th century

Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像
Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249) · 14th century

Bodhidharma
Kano Takanobu · ca. 1610–1618

The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Meditation
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1927

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Guanyin, white robed, seated upon an over-hanging rock
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 9th century

Meditation
William de Leftwich Dodge, born Liberty, VA 1867-died New York City 1935 · 1897

Seated Amitayus
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Democritus in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · 1662

Bodhidharma in Red Robes
Hasegawa Hakujun · 1671

5005 Profound Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · 1901

Scenes from the Life of Christ
Giovanni Baronzio · mid-1340s

A Man in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785
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. 113 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. 7461089 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 18:57 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.