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. 17 shown for “Yashoda with the Infant Krishna” — 50 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Krishna Vishvarupa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Yashoda and Gopal
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Celebrating the birth of Krishna (Janmashtami)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–83

Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1700

Janmastami
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series
Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

Panel from a jewelry casket: Krishna slays Putana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-16th century

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya
Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697) · dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)

Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)
Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1520–30

Virgin, Infant, and Joseph with an Angel Playing on a Violin
Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1770

Krishna's Parents Search for Him
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615

Virgin, Infant, and Saint John
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1293447 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:43 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.