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 “Order of the Eastern Star, American, founded 1850” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 18:08 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.

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

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · Early sixteenth century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Woman’s Rights Quilt
Emma Civey Stahl · ca. 1875

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

The Arrival in Bethlehem
Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
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. 102 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-30 18:08 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.