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 “Panel with the Massacre of the Innocents” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.

Panel with the Massacre of the Innocents
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Cheval fire screen
Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome
Master of the Munich Bavarian Panels · ca. 1450

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Double Capital
Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Panel
Firm of Ferdinand Duvinage, Paris, France · ca. 1880
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. 5535 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 20:23 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.