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 Presentation in the Temple. from the Life of the Virgin series” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

The Presentation in the Temple. from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

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

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

Sketch for a Painting of the Presentation of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, after Titian (right sheet)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

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

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

The Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem)
T'oros the Deacon · 1311

The Nativity, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Christ Taking Leave of his Mother, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1506

The Visitation
Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

The Visitation, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490
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Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th century
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. 8765 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. 7484752 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 2026-09-06 19:05 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.