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. 21 shown for “Michael Bean” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crocodile whistle and rattle
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

3c Washington essay large die proof
Michael Bean · 1851

Protective Pendant
Lower Niger Valley caster · 15th–19th century

Sphaeromorphaea littoralis (Retz.) A.R. Bean
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1966

St. Michael Casting Down Lucifer, after Pier Francesco Mola
Louis Jean Jacques Durameau · 18th century

Alphitonia pomaderroides A.R. Bean
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/6/54

Saint Michael the Archangel and Another Figure Recommending a Soul to the Virgin and Child in Heaven
Bartolomeo Biscaino · 1629–57

Pterocaulon tricholobum A.R. Bean
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/7/52

The Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael (recto); sketches of figures (verso)
Giuseppe Passeri (Passari) · 1654–1714

Dallia pectoralis Bean
Artist not stated in the record

Sketch of a statue: Nymph (or Nymph of the Rhine) by Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler
Franz Xaver Schwanthaler · ca. 1850

Dallia pectoralis Bean
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1877

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Dallia pectoralis Bean
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1877

Explanatory note relating to sculpture of Nymphy by Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler
Franz Xaver Schwanthaler · ca. 1850

Dallia pectoralis Bean
Artist not stated in the record

Stirrup-spout bottle with confronting figures
Artist not stated in the record · 500–800 CE

Lycodes turneri Bean
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1876

Chicomecoatl goddess
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Female figure
Chupícuaro artist(s) · 400–100 BCE

Female figure
Chupícuaro artist(s) · 400–100 BCE
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. 146 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 33374 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 17:23 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.