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. 23 shown for “Master of the Franciscan Breviary” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Franciscan Breviary · mid-15th century

Project for an Altar Painting
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · 1700–50

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

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - July, 1868

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Crucifix
Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia · 1370–75

Water color; Performers of a Commedia dell'Arte
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity
Master of the Dominican Effigies · ca. 1325

Tortula muralis
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother
Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1984

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Weissia viridula Hedw. ex Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

Virgin and Child
Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth var. stans
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1912

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Barbula vinealis Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1954

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Castilleja martinii Abrams
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1957

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 68 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. 2984656 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:02 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.