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 “Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venetian Scene
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Canal in Venice
Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century

Allegory
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Landscape with Ruins
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

A Venetian Senator
Unidentified (Italian) · 16th century

Nativity
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Model of a Venetian Palazzo
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Plate 12, Femina Veneta (Venetian Woman), Diversarum Nationum Ornatus Cum Suis Iconibus
Alessandro Fabri, Italian, active late 16th century · 1593

Flagellation
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Mourning sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

An Execution
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Peep-Show Print: Venice
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Design for Mirror or Box
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 1740–70

Venice and the Silk Road cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Cartouche with a Mask
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Nymphs Adorning the Statue of a Goddess (recto); River God with Three Nymphs (verso)
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Venetian Man
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1863?

Design for a Double Cartouche flanked by Satyrs (Frontispiece?)
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Monkey Playing a Violin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–1720

Houses by a River
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 1703–66

Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–early 18th century
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. 1258 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 45711 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 01:11 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.