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 “Master of Saint Severin” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard exhorts the sick in body to enter his church with their spirits, in doing so returning to find their infirmities healed (one of two)
Master of Saint Severin · after 1535

La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1877

Saints Bartholomew and Simon
Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

Madonna
Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d. · ca. 1500-1550

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490

Saint-Séverin
Artist not stated in the record

Pair of sauceboats
Pierre-Adrien Dachery · 1768–75

Saint-Séverin
Artist not stated in the record

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

Saint-Séverin
Artist not stated in the record

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Master Pertoldus · 1494

Saint-Séverin
Artist not stated in the record

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Santiago
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

San Juan Nepomuceno
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

Saint Michael
Master of Belmonte · 1450–1500

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931
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. 1596 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. 2885300 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 08:39 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.