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 “Seated Virgin and Child” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1553

Seated Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Virgin and Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

Virgin
Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child
Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

The Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

The Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Virgin and Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1825-1850

Seated Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Virgin and Child
Girolamo Siciolante, Italian, ca. 1521 - 1575 · ca. 1521–75

Seated Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

The Virgin, Child and Saint John
Artist not stated in the record · after 1675

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Virgin Seated On the Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Virgin and Child in the Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 1641

Seated Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Virgin and Child with Saints
Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1635–50

Standing Virgin and Child
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Virgin and Child with Parrot
Artist not stated in the record · 1549
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. 1592 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. 1482648 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-29 07:16 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.