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. 21 shown for “The Ecstasy of St. Francis” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló
Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

The Ecstasy of St. Francis
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

Saint Francis in Ecstasy
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy
Artist not stated in the record · 1816

Saints Bartholomew and Simon
Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

St. John Writing the Revelation in Ecstasy
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Saint Francis
Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Ecstasy of St. Theresa after Circle of Francesco Albani
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

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

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Flier for “Ecstasy Garage Disco” designed by Buddy Esquire
Buddy Esquire, American, 1959 - 2014 · February 17, 1980

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

Flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee’s Birthday”
Unidentified · October 25, 1980

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
Sir Francis Chantrey · 1823

A Dominican Female Saint in Ecstasy and Other Studies
Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790 · 1770–90

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed
Eddie Ed, American · November 21, 1980

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

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

The Visitation
Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20
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. 847 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. 3059343 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 15:12 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.