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. 12 shown for “Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1st–2nd century CE

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Chasse of Champagnat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)
Kunz Lochner · dated 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. 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:15 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.