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 “Three-Quarter Figure” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amun
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Three-Quarter Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 1796

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Saint Magdalen Repenting
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Gorget
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

A peasant woman from the neighborhood of Rome
Miguel Alfarren, Spanish · 1848

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627)
Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1595

Study for Christ, Chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1893–94

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Drawing
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620-1630

Armor for Field and Tournament
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–80

Studies of the Virgin Mary and a Standing Man
Gugliemo Cortese, 1628 – 1679 · ca. 1660

Design for a Painted Panel
Michel, French, active 18th century · 1785

Cabasset
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–75

Design for a ceiling
Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735 · ca. 1730

Close Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Five Circular Representations of Young Women
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1818

Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530

Sketch for Putto
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1893–94

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65

Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1631

Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

The Virgin With the Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850
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. 507 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. 148 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-02 09:59 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.