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 “Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:01 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.

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

Hercules and Achelous (in the form of a bull)
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · ca. 1670

Standing man representing a statue
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · 1657

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

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

Saint Sebastian
Master of the Furies · 17th century

Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

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

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

The Burg Weiler Altar Triptych (Altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and Saints)
Master of the Burg Weiler Altarpiece · ca. 1470
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. 1796 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 2026-08-26 20:01 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.