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 “Mother Bethel AME Church, American, founded 1794” — 12 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:14 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.

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Sampler
Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Sampler
Magdalena Denlinger · 1835

Embroidered sampler
Sally Cornelius · 1806

Totila before Saint Benedict
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Saint Peter and Simon Magus
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

The Conversion of Saint Paul
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Dead Child
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
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. 12 matched · 12 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 2026-08-27 11:14 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.