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. 21 shown for “Israhel van Meckenem” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence
Israhel van Meckenem · late 15th century

Design for a Silver Standing Cup
Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497 · 1498

The Fool and the Lady
Israhel van Meckenem

St. Elizabeth
Artist not stated in the record · before 1500

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Israhel van Meckenem

The Beheading of John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

The Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
Israhel van Meckenem

Garden of Love
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1500

Hares Roasting the Hunter
Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

The Lute Player and the Singer (2nd state)
Artist not stated in the record · before 1500

Saint Martin
Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

Coat of Arms with a Lion
Israhel van Meckenem

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

The Resurrection
Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

The Children's Bath
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · before 1500

The Four Fathers of the Church
Israhel van Meckenem

A Couple Seated on a Bed
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

The Nativity
Israhel van Meckenem

Christ as the Man of Sorrows Between Two Angels
Israhel van Meckenem · ca. 1500

Lute Player and Harpist, from Scenes of Daily Life
Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.
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. 49 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. 29182 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 17:12 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.