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 “Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:21 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.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Lucas Vorsterman I · 1621

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Leandro Bassano · 1557–1622

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Aurelio Luini · 1580s–early 1590s

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Peter, Saint Damasus, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Paul; the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the Background
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) · 1566–68

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

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty
Master of the Acts of Mercy
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. 639 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 2026-08-28 14:21 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.