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 “A Garden with Ruined Archway” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cuxa Cloister
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–40

A Garden with Ruined Archway
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

The Statue Before the Ruins
Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Illustration for the Poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Stage Design, Interior of Ruined Renaissance Palace
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

A Shaded Avenue
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Design for Garden Architecture with Colonna Arms
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1750

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Garden Pavilion in the Corinthian Order
André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1775

Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church
Thomas Gainsborough · August 1, 1797

Aechmea bracteata (Sw.) Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1990

Palati maioris (Palatine Palace, Rome), from "Roman Ruins"
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1650

Design for a Garden with a Fountain
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Architectural Ruins with a View of a Garden; Stage design for Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, "Robert le diable"
Carlo Ferrario · 1845–1907

Mixed Sketches with Archway and Figures, Hebron, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 13, 1868

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well
Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Frame for a town gate with alternate suggestions
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle
Thomas Gainsborough · 1797

Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869
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. 64 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1893584 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 2026-09-04 00:12 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.