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. 23 shown for “Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century” — 56 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch

Sagrado Corazon
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. mid-19th-early 20th century

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist
Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Calvario
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

The Arrival in Bethlehem
Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Los Reyes Magos
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

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

La Mano Poderosa
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1925

The Last Supper
Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

San Rafael y Tobias
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1850-1925

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Las Once Mil Virgenes
Francisco "Pacheco" Claudio, died late 1940s · first half of the 20th century

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Shamisen Player
Kitagawa Utamaro II 喜多川歌麿 二代目 (died 1831?) · late 18th-early 19th century

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

Returning home after harvest
Formerly attributed to Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century) · 14th-15th century

Man in Prayer
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

General Atomics MQ-1L Predator A
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc · 2000

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Folk art model of a slave ship on stand
Unidentified · 1890-1950

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
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. 256 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 32 matched · 32 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 16:02 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.