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 “Study: The left hand of a monk” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crowned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Study: The left hand of a monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Studies for a Kneeling Monk
Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

The left arm of a monk and his left hand
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1763–64

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

St. Bruno in Ecstasy
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

Hand
Auguste Rodin · modeled possibly ca. 1886–89

The Jacobite's Journal
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Child Saint Sambandar
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

Siren
Colonna · ca. 1600

Sketch for a wall paiting: Two sainted monks
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

study of a costumed figure
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Studies of a Seated Nude
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · 1776

Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla
Artist not stated in the record · 212–217 CE

Two Studies of Hand for Angel Appearing to St. Peter in "Early Christian Martyrs"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1839–40
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. 13266 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3953994 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-08 16:58 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.