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 “Lintel with the Entombment of Christ (right) and the Holy Women and Angel at the Sepulchre (left)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:36 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.

Lintel with the Entombment of Christ (right) and the Holy Women and Angel at the Sepulchre (left)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30, with modern recarving

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Entombment of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

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

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

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Tabernacle of Cherves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–1230

The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Christ and the Adulteress
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Christ Blessing the Children
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50
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. 826 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:36 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.