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. 15 shown for “Mathais Beitler” — 29 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork
Mathais Beitler · after 1616

Nostoc saxatile Zeller
Artist not stated in the record

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and a Fisherman
Mathais Beitler · 1612

Swartzia simplex var. grandiflora (Raddi) R.S. Cowan
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1962

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Putto, Birds and Insects
Mathais Beitler · 1612

Passiflora spinosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Mast.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1961

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and Animals
Mathais Beitler · 1612

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects
Mathais Beitler · 1582–1616

Blackwork Design with Saint Jerome
Mathais Beitler · 1615

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Grotesques, Garlands, and Birds
Mathais Beitler · 1582–1616

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Bee-Keeper, a Farmer and a Boar
Mathais Beitler · 1612

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with the Coat of Arms of a Bishop
Mathais Beitler · 1615

A Farmer and a Villager, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"
Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582

A Friar and a Soldier, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"
Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582

Title Plate, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"
Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582
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. 23 matched · 23 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:19 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.