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 “Male Monkey, Straddling Frame in Prayer” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Male Monkey, Straddling Frame in Prayer
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs
G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring'
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Female Monkey in Rococo Dress
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1723–24

The Tears of Saint Peter
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · ca. 1612–13

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs
G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

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

Singeries Amouresuses, Plate 2
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719 · ca. 1700

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Te igitur et Evangile
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Male Monkey with tambourine
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Armchair
Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

America
Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; settee frame second half 19th century

Aotus trivirgatus
Artist not stated in the record
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. 33 matched · 24 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. 7462351 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-03 17:44 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.