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 “Devotional picture of the Madonna of the Chair” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Devotional picture of the Madonna of the Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1770

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Picture
Gaspard Grégoire, French, 1751–1846 · ca. 1800

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

The Madonna della Sedia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800-1820

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

Design for an Icon, Madonna and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene
Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1335–45

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
Charles Paxson, American · 1864

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Band or picture
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Orphrey band or picture
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Cut-Paper Devotional Picture: Saint Joseph with the Christ Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Frame for small devotional picture
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1773-1774

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Devotional Picture: The Miraculous Virgin of Cell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

The Great Rosary
Master MTR of Nuremberg, German · 1519
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. 978 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. 2984001 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-03 00:47 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.