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 “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:08 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 Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Albrecht Dürer · 1510

The Beheading of St. John Baptist
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Beheading of John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · 1512

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Giuseppe Caletti, called Cremonese · 1620–30

The Beheading of John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1512

The Beheading of John the Baptist
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1631

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Beheading of John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Beheading of John the Baptist
Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613 - 1699 · 1661–66

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist
Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

Saint John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · 1622

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

The Child, Saint John the Baptist and, Possibly, Saint Elizabeth
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

The Holy Family, Saint John the Baptist, and Another Saint
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Saint John the Baptist
Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Saint John the Baptist, A Saint Bishop (Porbably One of the Doctors), and Two Devouts
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. 2632 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. 3128711 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-07 11:08 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.