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. 15 shown for “Maria” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Cardinalis cardinalis mariae
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1941

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Cardinalis cardinalis mariae
Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1897

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.
workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · 1508

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

The Crucifixion
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Empress Maria (1520–1603)
Antonio Abondio · 1575

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Santa Maria della Salute
Francesco Guardi · mid- to late 1760s

Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Feroni (1699–1767)
André Jean Lebrun · ca. 1767

Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780)
Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1769

Livre de Desseins De Jouaillerie Et Bijouterie
Maria · 1740–75
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. 4807 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 37769 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 12:22 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.