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 Virgin from a Pentecost Scene and the Figure of Saint Martin” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:52 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 from a Pentecost Scene and the Figure of Saint Martin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–48
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

The Holy Family with Saint John
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1820

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

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

Plaque with the Pentecost
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

LA PORTE ST. MARTIN
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1674–1703

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

Pentecost
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian, 1675–1741 · ca. 1700

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

Shrine of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child
Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Adoration of the Shepherds
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

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

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe from the Virgin
Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1687–94

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490

Madonna Appearing to Saint
Rodriguez · ca. 1650–60

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

The Descent of the Holy Spirit (The Pentecost), from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints
Antonio de' Dominici, Italian, ca. 1730–after 1800 · ca. 1759
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. 1480 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. 4214294 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 23:52 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.