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. 15 shown for “Kiss Painter” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragmentary terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Kiss Painter · ca. 510–500 BCE
Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame
Unidentified · mid 20th century

The Stolen Kiss
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Ko-rak-koo-kiss, a Towoccono Warrior
John Mix Stanley, born Canandaigua, NY 1814-died Detroit, MI 1872 · 1844

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Poseidon Painter · ca. 510–500 BCE

Pinback button with the saying "Kiss Me I'm Black"
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000

Triptych with the Mandylion
The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Virgin and Child with Angels
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

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

Nessus Abducting Dejanira
Bertel Thorvaldsen · modeled 1814–15, carved 1821–23 or 1826

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · 1475–99

Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco
Jean-François Montessuy · 1843

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 13269 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 02:12 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.