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. 12 shown for “Saint Firmin Holding His Head” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Saint Firmin Holding His Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1225–75

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Vanderbilt Mantelpiece
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1881–83

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation
Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s
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. 290 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:45 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.