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 “Anton Raphael Mengs, Germany, active in Italy 1728 - 1779” — 56 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Juno Seated on a Cloud
Anton Raphael Mengs, Germany, active in Italy 1728 - 1779 · 1750-1770

Self-Portrait
Anton Raphael Mengs · 1776

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Pleasure
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1754

Martha and Magdalen Ascending the Steps of the Temple
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1570

The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua
Anton Raphael Mengs

Three Cupids, One with a Wreath of Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 1779

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Anton Raphael Mengs · mid-18th–late 18th century

Portrait of Louise Elisabeth Bourbon, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Quastalls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1770

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist
Anton Raphael Mengs · mid-18th century

The Madonna della Sedia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800-1820

The Triumph of History over Time
Anton Raphael Mengs · 1771–75 (?)

Landscape view between Naples and Salerno
Anton Sminck Pitloo, Dutch, active in Italy, 1791 - 1837 · 1820–30

Seated Nude Male
Anton Raphael Mengs · n.d.

Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)
Artist not stated in the record · 1580

Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1760–61

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus
Raphael Morghen · 1784

Burning of the Borgo, after Raphael
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

Male Nude
Giovanni Battista Lombardi · 19th century

Group of Figures from Raphael's Incendio del Borgo
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to...
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803–09
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. 16 matched · 16 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. 7462245 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-06 06:37 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.