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 “Three Scenes from the Life of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:11 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 Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

Three Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1538–50

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

Wing of an Ivory Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · 970–1030

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

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

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

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Lys (Lillies) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

The Adoration of the Magi
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–90

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

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc
Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817
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. 5539 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. 3082695 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-05 00:11 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.