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. 12 shown for “Aeneas Saving Anchises” — 23 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 11:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 6th century BCE

Aeneas Fleeing Troy with Anchises, Creusa, and Ascanias (Aeneid, Book II)
Master of the Aeneid · probably ca. 1530–35

Silver denarius of Julius Caesar
Artist not stated in the record · 47–46 BCE

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Diosphos Painter · ca. 500 BCE

Aeneas and Anchises
Leonaert Bramer · 1611–74

Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (Aeneid, Book V)
Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35

The Fleet of Aeneas Arrives in Sight of Italy (Aeneid, Book III)
Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35

Aeneas Builds a Fleet Near Antandrus, at the Foot of Mount Ida (Aeneid, Book III)
Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35

Aeneas Carrying Anchises in the Burning of Troy
Francesco Allegrini · 1624–63

Plate 126: Aeneas and Anchises (AEnea in perentem pietas), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta · 1606

Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders while Troy burns in the background
Master of the Die · 1530–60

Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders while Troy burns in the background
Master of the Die · 1530–60
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. 23 matched · 23 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 11:58 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.