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 “Krishna on Garuda” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Krishna on Garuda
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

Vishnu Riding on Garuda
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1004

Head cloth (kain kepala)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Dharma-wheel pilaster (dharmacakrastambha)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 3rd century CE

Krishna Vishvarupa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

Head cloth (kain kepala)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Krishna and Balarama depart Vrindavan
Becharam Das Dutta · dated equivalent to 1856

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Head of Krishna (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Krishna entertains his companions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1765

Celebrating the birth of Krishna (Janmashtami)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–83

Head cloth (kain kepala)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series
Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

Krishna Revels with the Gopis: Page from a Dispersed Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherds)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana
Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1560–65

Sarong
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Durga slaying the demon Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)
Krishna Chandra · 1850–70

Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a Rasikpriya
Nuruddin · dated 1690
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. 225 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 980171 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-27 13:50 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.