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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 “Cabane De Pecheurs (Cotes de l'Italie)” — 55 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 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.
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Cabane De Pecheurs (Cotes de l'Italie)

Cabane De Pecheurs (Cotes de l'Italie)

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Cochlearia danica L.

Cochlearia danica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom"), by Camille Corot

The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")

Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857

Public domainThe Met
Bangia fuscopurpurea (Dillwyn) Lyngb.

Bangia fuscopurpurea (Dillwyn) Lyngb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jan 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 41 (recto), by Federico de Vinciolo

Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 41 (recto)

Federico de Vinciolo · 1588

Public domainThe Met
Lecanora prominens Asta et al., nom. illeg.

Lecanora prominens Asta et al., nom. illeg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue d'une partie du Palais des Cesars du côté de Campo Vaccino, batie par l'Empereur Caligula, from "Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore", by Jean Barbault

Vue d'une partie du Palais des Cesars du côté de Campo Vaccino, batie par l'Empereur Caligula, from "Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore"

Jean Barbault · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Plate 7, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 7, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 2, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Madonna and Child

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · ca. 1508

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 8, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume, by Rosalba Carriera

Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume

Rosalba Carriera · 1730–31

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 10, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two naked men, the sons of Noah, standing in profile facing right, both pointing, by Marcantonio Raimondi

Two naked men, the sons of Noah, standing in profile facing right, both pointing

Marcantonio Raimondi · ca. 1500–34

Public domainThe Met
Plate 12, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 12, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Allegorical Figure of Divine Wisdom, by Carlo Maratti

Seated Allegorical Figure of Divine Wisdom

Carlo Maratti · 1674–77

Public domainThe Met
Plate 5, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 5, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Essempio di recammi, page 27 (verso), by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

Essempio di recammi, page 27 (verso)

Giovanni Antonio Tagliente · 1530

Public domainThe Met
Plate 9, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 9, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 2 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. 619413 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.