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. 24 shown for “Prudence and Beauty” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prudence
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century

Prudence and Beauty
Artist not stated in the record · 1782

Prudence
Andrea della Robbia · ca. 1475

Four Ovals: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

Beauty
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Prudence, Vaulted Panel, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Beauty
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Decorative Project with Prudence in Oval
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1675

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Study for "Prudence," Lunette in Hudson County Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1910

Monumental vase
Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Prudence
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585

Prudence
Johann August Nahl The Younger, German, 1752 - 1825 · ca. 1781

Beauty Revealed
Sarah Goodridge · 1828

Design for an Ovoidal Painting: Prudence
Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808 · ca. 1780

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece
Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Design for a Monument to Emperor Charles VI of Naples
Baldassare De Caro, Italian, active early 18th century · ca. 1735

Composite Armor
Jörg Wagner · comprehensively ca. 1485–95

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
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. 7668 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. 1464028 matched · 40 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 13:20 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.