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Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Raphael Sadeler II” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:14 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Wooded landscape, by Raphael Sadeler II

Wooded landscape

Raphael Sadeler II

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger, by Marco Sadeler

Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger

Marco Sadeler · 1606

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The vision of Saint Dominic, with God the Father and Christ at top center, the Virgin standing below on the crescent moon, and Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic in the foreground, by Raphael Sadeler II

The vision of Saint Dominic, with God the Father and Christ at top center, the Virgin standing below on the crescent moon, and Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic in the foreground

Raphael Sadeler II · 1607

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Noppurga, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III), by Raphael Sadeler II

Saint Noppurga, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III)

Raphael Sadeler II · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican), by Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791 · 1722–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Children Killed in Regensburg, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III), by Raphael Sadeler II

Six Children Killed in Regensburg, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III)

Raphael Sadeler II · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Two Knives

Two Knives

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy Killed in the Palatine, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III), by Raphael Sadeler II

Boy Killed in the Palatine, from Bavaria Sancta: The Life and Martyrdom of Holy Men and Women (Vol. III)

Raphael Sadeler II · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Knife Handles, by Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563

Design for Two Knife Handles

Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raphael, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Raphael

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1651

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Noah's Ark, by Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600

Noah's Ark

Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · 1657

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior View of Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle during the Annual Fair, by Aegidius Sadeler II

Interior View of Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle during the Annual Fair

Aegidius Sadeler II · 1607

Public domainThe Met
The Fall of Man, by Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600

The Fall of Man

Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
St. Cecilia

St. Cecilia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
Litterae, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Litterae

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium sp.

Vaccinium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Mary Magdalene, by Raphael Sadeler I

The Penitent Mary Magdalene

Raphael Sadeler I · 1602

Public domainThe Met
Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 406 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. 35017 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 03:14 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.