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 “Battle Scene, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Battle Scene, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables
Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

The Battle of Vercellae
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Plate 5, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Plate 8, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Title Page, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Plate 11, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Gorget
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Plate 4, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Triptych with the Mandylion
The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Plate 2, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Grave stele with Hoplite Battle Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 390 BCE

Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Plate 6, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Vitellius tazza
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th century

Plate 9, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Plate 7, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664
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. 442 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 418159 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-08 17:45 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.