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 Virgin Supported by Saint John, from a Crucifixion Group” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:23 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 Virgin Supported by Saint John, from a Crucifixion Group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–50

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John
Unidentified · 1400-1500

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Descent from the Cross
Stefano Di Vanni, Italian, born 1405-died 1483 · 14th century

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

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Stag Hunt with Rifles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

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

Sketches, The Child, Saint John, and the Cross Supported by Flying Angles (?)
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · 18th century

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Two Representations of Saint Luke Making a Portrait of the Virgin and the Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800–1825

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

After Boltraffio, "Sacra Conversazione"
Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919 · 1878-1882

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

The Crucifixion
Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60
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. 1353 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. 2983993 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 2026-08-30 13:23 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.