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. 12 shown for “Kushite official, subsequently modified” — 16 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 12:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Kushite official, subsequently modified
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Saint Ansanus
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

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

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Salvator Mundi
Hans Memling · 1480–85

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Saint Andrew
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 12:59 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.