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. 12 shown for “Tobias and His Wife” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tobias
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · early to mid-16th century

Nikare with his Wife and Daughter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Balthasar Griessmann · second half 17th century

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Sennedjem and Iineferti in the Fields of Iaru
Charles K. Wilkinson · 1922; original ca. 1300–1224 BCE

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

The Last Supper
Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · 1548

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters
Eugène Delacroix · 1832

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen
Bernard van Orley · 1530–35
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. 3055 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 22:36 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.