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 “Diptych with Scenes from the Lives of Jesus and Mary” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:32 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.

Diptych with Scenes from the Lives of Jesus and Mary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

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

Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88

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

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ
Artist not stated in the record · early 300s, with modern restoration

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
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. 2769 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 2026-08-27 01:32 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.