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. 12 shown for “Cornelis Cort” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 23:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Italian Landscape
Cornelis Cort · 16th century

Bacchus on the Shoulders of a Satyr, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Cornelis Cort · 16th century

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Cornelis Cort · 1569

St. Eustace in the Wilderness
Cornelis Cort · 1573

Concourse of the Gods on Mount Olympus
Cornelis Cort · 1565

The Martyrdom of St Lawrence
Cornelis Cort · 1571

Lament of the Art of Painting (Upper Half)
Cornelis Cort · 1579

The Conversion of Saint Paul
Cornelis Cort · 1576

Tityus Punished in Hell
Cornelis Cort · 1566

St Jerome in the Desert
Cornelis Cort · 1565

Birth of the Virgin
Cornelis Cort · 1578

The Martyrdom of St Stephen
Cornelis Cort · 1576
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. 107 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 23:40 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.