OpenTwo 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. Matthew” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Apostle spoon: St. Matthew
William Cawdell · 1592/93
Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661
Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75
Odobenus rosmarus divergens
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1972
St. Matthew
Master F. P. · 16th century
St. Matthew (S.Mathevs)
Artist not stated in the record · 1650
St. Matthew
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1536–38
St. Matthew (?)
Angiolo Falconetto
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
Silver Statuette of St. Matthew from the Wittenberg Reliquaries
Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Arrival in Bethlehem
Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50
Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
St. Matthew
Martin Schongauer · second half of the 15th century
Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35
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. 334 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 126051 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 2026-09-01 11:23 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.