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Images / art

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 “Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:45 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Meeting of Saints Francis and Clara, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Meeting of Saints Francis and Clara

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten Elements for East Window of an Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Ten Elements for East Window of an Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York, from Harper's Weekly, February 20, 1869, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York, from Harper's Weekly, February 20, 1869

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
View of Church Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

View of Church Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1742–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Section of a Villa, by Francois Soufflot, called Le Romain, French, 1802

Section of a Villa

Francois Soufflot, called Le Romain, French, 1802 · ca. 1780s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Log Cabin Politicians, by G. W. Burgess and Company

Log Cabin Politicians

G. W. Burgess and Company · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
Tammany Hall at 14th Street, by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Tammany Hall at 14th Street

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Gerard David

The Nativity

Gerard David · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Sheet of architectural sketches, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Sheet of architectural sketches

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimborazo from the Rio Guayas, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Chimborazo from the Rio Guayas, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 45 matched · 24 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. 1971357 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 2026-09-02 05:45 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.