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. 15 shown for “St. Antonius of Padua” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

St. Antonius of Padua
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Project for an Altar Painting
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · 1700–50

Pendant with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–19th century

Saint Anthony of Padua
Eighteenth-Century Novice, active late 18th century · late 18th century

Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 19th century

Virgin and Child with St. Joseph
Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) · mid-16th century

Carthusian seal stamp with depiction of St. Bruno and St. Antony of Padua
Artist not stated in the record

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century?

Twisted-stem spoon
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1650

The Villa Loredan, Paese
Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

St. Theresa
Antonius Wierix III · ca. 1614–22
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. 121 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. 2927824 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:19 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.