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 “Manuscript Leaf with Dedication of a Book to the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:15 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

Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Manuscript Leaf with Dedication of a Book to the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

An oratory dedicated to the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
![Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8CEE466C0AF22-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th century

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Dedication Page
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

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

Dedication page
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

The Freedmen's Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Virginal
Artist not stated in the record · 1540

A Christian subject: The Madonna and Child
Probably by Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619) · ca. 1605-1610

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Virgin, with Putto Holding a Book
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Landscape with a figure of the Virgin Mary
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Dedication Page
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Title Page
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15
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. 2354 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. 4219420 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 16:15 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.