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 “Francesco Monaco” — 63 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1406

Lathyrus articulatus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1853

Statue of Tuccia, the ancient Roman Vestal Virgin (Tucia Vestale)
Francesco Monaco · ca. 1748

Asphodelus ramosus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1867

Plan of ancient Rome with a view of the Pantheon lower left and a triumphal arch lower right
Carlo Nolli · 1748

Tortula muralis
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1969

Noli me tangere
Pietro Monaco · 1730–39

Coronilla valentina L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /4/3

Job rebuked by his wife
Pietro Monaco · 1730–39

Phagnalon sordidum (L.) Rchb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/6/85

Woman Playing a Guitar
Simon Vouet · ca. 1618
Corallina sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1962

Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1872

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation
Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400
Euphorbia dendroides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1892

Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors
Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni · possibly ca. 1380
Euphorbia dendroides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

The Crucifixion
Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) · ca. 1365

Cneorum tricoccon L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /9/9

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Scabiosa simplex Desf.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1925

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Cneorum tricoccon L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1872
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 3 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. 530 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 07:53 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.