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 Return of the Prodigal Son” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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 Return of the Prodigal Son
Lucas van Leyden · ca. 1510

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1636

Return of the Prodigal Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Sebald Beham · 1540

The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1536–40

Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Lombardy- The Veneto · mid-16th century

The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

The return of the Prodigal Son
Anonymous, 17th century · 1650–1700

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The Banquet for the Return of the Prodigal Son
Abraham Bosse · ca. 1636

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The Banquet for the Return of the Prodigal Son
Abraham Bosse · ca. 1636

The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Vincenzio Vangelisti · 1764–98

The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson
Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

The return of the prodigal son who falls at his father's feet
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1536–40

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

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

The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847
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. 19872 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2984976 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 15:54 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.