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 Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Helmet with Aventail
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)
Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul
Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802 · 1770–80

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

Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Paul
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

St. Balbina from St. Peter's colonnade
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

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

Hope from the loggia at St. Peter's
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló
Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-19th century

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

Design for a Candelabrum
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800–1815

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 1869

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1754

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

Dome of St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincian Hill, Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

A North West View of St Pauls Cathedral London
Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801
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. 4985 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3319936 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 19:08 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.