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 “Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1509

Christ Carrying the Cross
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1577–87

A Saint's Vision of the Cross
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1800–20

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

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

Roundel
Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

The Way to Calvary, with Saint Veronica Receiving the Veil Imprinted with the Face of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Veronica
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Christ in Glory with Angels
Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Design for an Easter Sepulchre
Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Designs for Carved Trophies
François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Design of an Altar mensa
Unknown, Italian · 1650-1675

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

The Great Rosary
Master MTR of Nuremberg, German · 1519

Christ Carrying the Cross
Martin Schongauer · ca. 1475–80

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246
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. 628 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. 1351170 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 19:35 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.