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 “Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

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

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-19th century

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Panel Design with the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and Saint John
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1654

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

The Holy Family
Robert Loftin Newman, born Richmond, VA 1827-died New York City 1912 · n.d.

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

St. Christopher Apostle Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Stag Hunt with Rifles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John
Unidentified · 1400-1500

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

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

Coronation of the Virgin
Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1530–1560

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765

The Virgin and Child with Saints Elizabeth, Joseph, and Young John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine; St. John the Baptist, after Guercino; St. George and the Dragon, After Alessandro Tiarini; Two Putti
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22
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. 734 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. 2310389 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 21:47 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.