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 “Veronica arvensis L.” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Coverlet and two matching bolster covers
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1886

The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1941

Veronica's Veil
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1951

St. Veronica with the Sudarium, after Michelangelo
Nicolas Beatrizet · 1540–66
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1949

Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1949

Road to Calvary, at center Veronica kneels before Christ and holding the Sudarium
Coryn Boel · ca. 1656–1660
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1879

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1786

Turtle Vessel
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1881

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Master Pertoldus · 1494
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 188-

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496
Veronica arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1980
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. 63 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. 1293707 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-01 17:02 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.