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 “Triptych with the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the Disrobing of Jesus” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Triptych with the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the Disrobing of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Design for a Chapel Wall
Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Abraham Francen, Apothecary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

Triptych with the Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Portrait of Abraham Francen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

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

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Sheath for a Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1555

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Early 16th century

Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation
Master of the Orléans Triptych · late 19th–early 20th century

"Cigar Box" Crucifix
Unidentified · ca. 1880-1920

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John
Unidentified · 1400-1500

The Crucifixion
Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Altarpiece
Unidentified · 1100-1200

Plaque with the Pentecost
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Bonad
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

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

Madonna and Child
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640 · ca. 1615-1618
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. 420 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. 3537271 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 19:34 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.