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. 22 shown for “Antonio Franchi (Il Lucchese)” — 50 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Putto and Angel Holding a Banderole
Antonio Franchi (Il Lucchese) · 1706

A Stucco Angel from the Nave Vault, Church of the Gesu, Rome," from the album "Drawings after Ornament and Architecture"
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Angel Holding a Banderole
Antonio Franchi (Il Lucchese) · 1706

Samples
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Antonio Puglieschi · 1700

Plantago media L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1846

Sketches of seven statues: Faith, Paolo and Francesca di RImini, Charity, Ceres, Heavenly Venus, Dancer, and Sleeping Cupid
John Gibson · ca. 1850

Rabelera holostea (L.) M.T. Sharples & E.A. Tripp
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1846

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Melica nutans L.
Artist not stated in the record

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Act 5, Scene 1, for Il Pomo d'Oro
Francesco Sbarra · 1667

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Sample
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Textile
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Sapajus nigritus nigritus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1946

A Seated Saint Reading from a Book
Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) · late 15th century

Bassin de Neptune, Versailles
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · 1913

One of the Figures at the Parterre d'Eau
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1911 or 1913

Pinus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 1917
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 52099 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 08:18 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.