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 “Radha and Krishna on a Bed at Night” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Radha and Krishna on a Bed at Night
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a Rasikpriya
Nuruddin · dated 1690

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

Kamod Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770-1775

Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya
Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697) · dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Abhisarika Nayika, folio from a Rasikpriya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615-1625

A Lady Playing the Tanpura
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome
Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

Krishna and Radha, Page from a Dispersed Rasikapriya (Verses Celebrating Aspects of Love)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–70

Krishna Vishvarupa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Radha Worships Krishna as Kali
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1813

Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove (recto); Krishna Fluting (verso)
the Kota Master · ca. 1720 (recto); ca. 1750–75 (verso)

Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1680

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Kama Aims His Bow at Radha: Page From a Dispersed Gita Govinda (Loves of Krishna)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1695

Krishna entertains his companions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1765

Krishna Venugopala and Radha in a wooded glade (Shri Shri Radha Krishna)
Krishnahari Das · 1880

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series
Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

Radha Crosses a River to Interview a Hindu Sage
Chokha · ca. 1820

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · August 29, 1839
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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3093660 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-29 02:23 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.