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 “Female figure holding infant” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Female figure holding infant
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Beggars, Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

House post figure
Lake Sentani artist · 19th century

Figures
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

Virgin and Child
Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

Figure Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1853

Seated female figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Drawing: A) Rhea and the infant Jupiter. B) St. Francis of Assisi
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1620

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Portrait in Silhouette
Augustin-Amant-Constance Fidele Edouart, French, active England and USA, 1789 - 1861 · 1839-1849

Shrine of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)
Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Figures Attacked by Serpents
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–25

Seated male figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Saturn, from The Seven Planets
Artist not stated in the record · 1539

Female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1100 BCE

Mountain Ridge near Al-Zabadani, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 5 or 6 1868

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Adoration of the Shepherds
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1750–90

Estate Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

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

Kneeling female figure
Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Anatomical Sketches of Heads
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1865–75
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. 742 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 611147 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 21:21 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.