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 Santa Maria la Bianca” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated Figure (Prophet or Apostle)
Master of Santa Maria la Bianca · ca. 1200
Casimiroa edulis La Llave
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1940

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

Aechmea mariae-reginae H. Wendl.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1974

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Aechmea mariae-reginae H. Wendl.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1974

Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Amauropelta pilosula (Klotzsch & H. Karst.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1940

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

Wigandia kunthii Choisy
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1946

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

Combretum laxum Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1987

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

Microgramma percussa (Cav.) de la Sota
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1950 to 3 Feb 1950

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

Condea albida (Kunth) Harley & J.F.B. Pastore
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1994

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

Acacia pennatula (Schltr. & Cham.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1994

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo
Master of Charles of Durazzo · 1381–82

Acacia pennatula (Schltr. & Cham.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1994

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

Stenostephanus haematodes (Schltdl.) T.F. Daniel
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 2001

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

Stenostephanus haematodes (Schltdl.) T.F. Daniel
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 2001
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. 783 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3204833 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 14:54 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.