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Images / art

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 “"Goose Preening its Tail," Folio from the Bellini Album” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Folio from the Bellini Album

Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1695–1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from the Bellini Album

Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Goose Preening its Tail," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Goose Preening its Tail," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Mercury," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Mercury," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Devotional Scene," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Devotional Scene," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Cows from Nature, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Cows from Nature

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Seven Devotional Scenes," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Seven Devotional Scenes," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Horse's Head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Horse's Head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Virgin and Child," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Virgin and Child," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Portrait of "El Primo," After Velázquez, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of "El Primo," After Velázquez

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Six Devotional Scenes," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Six Devotional Scenes," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Historic Portrait No. 11 (Self-Portrait), by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Historic Portrait No. 11 (Self-Portrait)

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Six Devotional Subjects," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Six Devotional Subjects," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Self-Portrait, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Self-Portrait

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Annunciation," Folio from the Bellini Album

"The Annunciation," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Female Nude, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Female Nude

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Yusuf Freed from the Well," Folio from the Bellini Album

"Yusuf Freed from the Well," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Iris, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Iris

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"St. Michael, the Archangel," Folio from the Bellini Album

"St. Michael, the Archangel," Folio from the Bellini Album

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Letter about Refusal from Salon, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Letter about Refusal from Salon

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 221 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. 1358923 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 03:44 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.