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 “Studies probably for an Adoration of the Shepherds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 19:44 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 Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Studies probably for an Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

The Adoration of the Shepherds
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to...
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803–09

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to...
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803–09

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–50

The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891

Adoration of the Shepherds
Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian, 1728 – 1781 · 1766

Adoration of the Shepherds
Francesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma · ca. 1500

The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Adoration of the Shepherds
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1750–90

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

The Adoration of the Shepherds
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Workshop · ca. 1612–14

Adoration of the Shepherds
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome
Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Antonio de' Dominici, Italian, ca. 1730–after 1800 · ca. 1730

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Adoration of the Shepherds
Antonio de' Dominici, Italian, ca. 1730–after 1800 · ca. 1730

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850
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. 2031 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. 3024985 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 19:44 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.