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 “Portrait of Francesco Berni (c. 1497-1535)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:43 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.

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Francesco Bocchetta
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · ca. 1565–90

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Portrait of a Mughal Woman
Francesco Renaldi · 1787

Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Portrait of a Young Man
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s
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. 148 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 2026-09-02 12:43 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.