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 “St. Jerome in Penitence” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 11:53 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 Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

St. Jerome in Penitence
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence
Israhel van Meckenem · late 15th century

St. Mary Magdalene Penitent
Artist not stated in the record · 1585

Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Ruellia prostrata Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1968

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470
![The Penitent Man Choosing Good over Evil [left]; Spirit of the Penitent Man Ascending to Heaven [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9288_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Penitent Man Choosing Good over Evil [left]; Spirit of the Penitent Man Ascending to Heaven [right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1587–1595

St. Jerome
Lucas van Leyden · 1513

San Juan Nepomuceno
Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy
Artist not stated in the record · 1816

The Penitence of St. Jerome
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509
![The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9277_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1595

St. Jerome in the Wilderness
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard
Artist not stated in the record · 1645–1652

St. Jerome in the Wilderness
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Penitant Underwing
Artist not stated in the record

Hagar in the Wilderness
Camille Corot · 1835

St. Jerome in his Study
Artist not stated in the record · 1514

Saint Jerome with a lion
Francesco Orlandini · 1547

St. Jerome in His Chamber
James R. Osgood and Co.

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

St. Jerome
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · ca. 1872-1879
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. 228 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. 7462156 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-04 11:53 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.