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. 21 shown for “Virgin” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Psidium amplexicaule Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1956

Virgin
Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Sketches, The Virgin Enthroned and the Virgin and Child Enthroned
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Virginal
Artist not stated in the record · 1540

Solanum polygamum Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

Rectangular Octave Virginal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

The Virgin and Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1825

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century (?) or later

Birth of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Coccoloba swartzii Meisn.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1956

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Psidium amplexicaule Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

Plaque from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century
Gracilaria foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record

Enamel from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140
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. 3222 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. 16046 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:15 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.