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 Visitation” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:29 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 Visitation
Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

The Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · 1540–1550

Panel with the Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Mankato, Minnesota Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · June 17, 1895

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · 1444

The Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · 1591

Visitation
Domingos António de Sequeira · 1768–1837

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"
Artist not stated in the record · before 1506

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

The Visitation
Abraham de Bruyn · 1580–1600

Study of the Visitation, After Peter Paul Rubens
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

The Visitation
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1870

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

View of Union Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

The Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Saulpaugh Hotel Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

The Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Tilton, New Hampshire Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · May 2, 1896

The Visitation
Master ES · 15th century

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · April 12, 1892
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. 3209 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1184984 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-29 09:29 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.