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 “Catholic Church” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
L'office de l'Église en françois contenant les offices pour toute l'année, plusieurs prières tirées de l'écriture-sainte & des saints pères, les hymnes en vers françois, avec une instruction pour les fidèles
Catholic Church · 1792

Livery trimmings
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Loffice de Noël, 1768
Catholic Church · 1768
Croton cascarilla (L.) L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1963

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72
Ricinus communis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1972

Uffizio della Settimana Santa : colle rubriche volgari, argomenti de' Salmi, spiegazione delle cerimonie e misterj, con osservazioni, e riflessioni divote dell'abate Alessandro Mazzinelli
Alessandro Mazzinelli · 1794

Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Illustration of Foreign Residences and the Catholic Church in Yokohama (Yokohama shōkan tenshudō no zu)
Utagawa Hiroshige III · 10th month, 1870

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg
Claude Guy Hallé · ca. 1681

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Cog Rattle
Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century

Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Bishop Saint
Pierre Legros II · late 17th–early 18th century

Casuarina equisetifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1983

The Triumph of the Word of God, from "Triumph of the Catholic Church" (oil sketch for a painting of the same subject)
Otto van Veen · ca.1615–20

Xanthium strumarium L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 2002

Console table
Franz Adam Weber · 1758

Psidium guineense Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1969

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Eugenia willdenowii Nied.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1974

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim
Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68
Phyllanthus urinaria L.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 2010
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. 216 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 13204 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 08:51 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.