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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Project for a ceiling. With alternative suggestions.
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1660

Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni
Gian Battista Bolognini · 1650–80

Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Ariadne on Naxos Approached by Bacchus
Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1790

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1802

Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini · 1720s

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1799

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Birth of Bacchus; Banquet of Bacchus and Ariadne
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

Seascape with Bacchus and Ariadne
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1742

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

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

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

Side table
John Yenn · ca. 1780

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Design for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Study for an Overdoor Painting, Ariadne Viewing the Approach of Bacchus' Ship
Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1707

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
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.