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 “Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle
Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809 · 1761

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Elevation of a Tomb
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285)
Jean d'Arras · 1297–1307

Deer Hunt with Nets
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1599

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
Inscribed Slab
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Distant View of the Royal Tombs, Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868
Fragment of an Inscribed Slab
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

6c Father Marquette plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · June 4, 1968
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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3866161 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-31 20:24 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.