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 “David Cutting off the Head of Goliath” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 16:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

David Cutting off the Head of Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 1540

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

David with the head of Goliath
Bartolomeo Bellano · 1470–80
![David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8145_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca .1595–1605

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Allen Cut-Off Valve, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1842

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

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

Study of Female Nude
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
![Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7BC365439CA82-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
Artist not stated in the record · 1782

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · June 22 - July 5, c. 1848

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
![Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-0EEBE942926E2-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
Artist not stated in the record · 1782

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Lower Part of a Standing Figure
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1868 - April 1869

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Study of a Bust of a Child (from a plaster cast)
Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1881–92
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. 424 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3084827 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-07 16:01 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.