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 “Saint Barbara” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1594

Saint Barbara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490
![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

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Chasuble
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Saint Barbara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Santa Barbara
Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1680-1690

Saint Barbara
Unknown · last quarter 18th century

Standing Figure
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Rosary Terminal Bead with the Virgin and Child, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Santa Barbara
Unidentified · 18th century

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Santa Barbara
Unidentified · ca. 1675-1725

Flagon
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Phragmipedium Bald Eagle Creek
Artist not stated in the record

Saint Barbara
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Usnea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1980

Saint Barbara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Orphrey
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Saint Barbara Holding a Tower, with the Arms of the City of Maastrict below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)
Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

Saint Barbara
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th 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. 493 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 63660 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 20:18 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.