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 Magdalen Repenting” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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 Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Saint Magdalen Repenting
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Madonna and Child Enthroned
Master of the Magdalen

Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · ca. 1500

The Penitent Magdalen
Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1750

Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene
Unidentified (French) · 17th century

Saint Mary Magdalen
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

The Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalene
Artist not stated in the record · 1586

The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen
Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1495–1500

Study: Saint Mary Magdalene
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation
Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400
Loxia leucoptera leucoptera
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1882

Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia
Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681 · 1638

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Magdalen
Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

The Crucifixion
Gerard David · ca. 1495

Zonotrichia albicollis
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1884

Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Christ Appearing to Mary
Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918 · n.d.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen
Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Catharus minimus bicknelli
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1887

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Crucifixion
H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928 · 1915-1925
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. 230 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. 43460 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.