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 “Leaf from a Diptych with the life of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:22 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
Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S.
L. S. · 1518

Leaf from a Diptych with the life of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 14th century

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

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

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · 15th-16th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

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

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

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

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Virgin on the Crescent (Title Page of the Life of the Virgin)
Artist not stated in the record · 1511

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

The Visitation, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825
![Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7861_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

Bust of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

The Nativity, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506
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. 12484 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. 4040542 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 14:22 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.