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 Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:16 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 Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes
Artist not stated in the record · 1520

Virgin
Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Portrait of a Boy and a Swaddled Child
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1835

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

The Virgin With the Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Sketch, the Virgin with the Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Standing Virgin and Child
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Putti playing before a herm
Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754 · 1750–1752

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

In Swaddlings
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1911

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

The Adoration of the Magi
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–90
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. 1352 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. 7484939 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-07 09:16 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.