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. 23 shown for “The Circumcision in the Stable” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Circumcision in the Stable
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

The Circumcision in the Stable
Artist not stated in the record · 1654

Stable
Charles Jacque · 1848

The Circumcision
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Circumcision
Laurent de La Hyre

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

Circumcision
Aegidius Sadeler II · 1590

Palepai (ship cloth)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Circumcision
Aegidius Sadeler II · 1590

In the Stable
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1911

Relief Depicting Meryneith Inspecting His Stables and Ships Unloading Merchandise, from his tomb at Saqqara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1318 BCE

The Stable
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1875

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35
![Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7861_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

The Circumcision
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–70

Farm Buildings, Germany
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1876

Roundel with the Circumcision
Artist not stated in the record · 1480–90

Stable at Cuenca
John Singer Sargent, born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925 · 1903

Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Stables of the Duc d'Orléans, Plate 76 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"
Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320
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. 459 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. 7483436 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:15 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.