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. 17 shown for “Children of the Abbey, Vol. I” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
King Clothar I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Children of the Abbey, Vol. I
Artist not stated in the record

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Children of the Abbey, Vol. II
Artist not stated in the record

Ipu Hula (gourd drum)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Men of the 32nd in the Court of the Abbey Echternach
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1874

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I
Edwin Austin Abbey · 1898

"A Sentiment"
Artist not stated in the record

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

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

King Clovis I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Ukulele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication
Denis Diderot · 1762–72

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
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. 10613 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. 3582638 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:58 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.