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 “Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–1200

The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

Column Statue of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Baldacchino with Papal Ar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

Saint Anthony Abbot
Nikolaus von Hagenau · ca. 1500

Altar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Altar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Saint Paul Preaching at Athens
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1517

Column Statue of an Apostle
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Saint Sebastian
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

Saint Matthew
Antonio Susini · 1596

St. Sebastian at the Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495

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

Saint Sebastian, Detail of Polyptich with the Virgin Enthroned, Study after Dosso Dossi
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Saint Bernardino of Siena
Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Design for an Embroidery or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1810

Saint Catherine of Siena
Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Prospectus Templi S. Iohannis Romae (View of Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome)
Artist not stated in the record

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Two Bologna Views
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th–early 19th century

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, Rome
Szymon Czechowicz, Polish, 1689 - 1775 · 1724–1725
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. 42 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. 3001405 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 07:09 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.