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 “Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India
Artist not stated in the record · mid-500s

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

The Parable of the Mote and the Beam
Domenico Fetti · ca. 1619

Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

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

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)
Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847
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. 173 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. 3226661 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-01 09:34 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.