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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 “Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos” — 57 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:13 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.
Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos

Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a ceiling. With alternative suggestions., by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Project for a ceiling. With alternative suggestions.

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and Ariadne, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni

Gian Battista Bolognini · 1650–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ariadne on Naxos Approached by Bacchus, by Thomas Rowlandson

Ariadne on Naxos Approached by Bacchus

Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and Ariadne, by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini · 1720s

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Birth of Bacchus; Banquet of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Birth of Bacchus; Banquet of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seascape with Bacchus and Ariadne, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Seascape with Bacchus and Ariadne

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stucco relief panel

Stucco relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table, by John Yenn

Side table

John Yenn · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Overdoor Painting, Ariadne Viewing the Approach of Bacchus' Ship, by Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729

Study for an Overdoor Painting, Ariadne Viewing the Approach of Bacchus' Ship

Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1707

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 980877 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 20:13 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.