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. 22 shown for “Cesare Nebbia” — 50 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An Ecclesiastic (Pope?) Blessing a Book before the Sacred College
Cesare Nebbia · 1580–90

A scene from the Passion of Christ (Christ before Pilate)
Cesare Nebbia, Italian, ca. 1536 - 1614 · late 16th century

The Pentecost (The Descent of the Holy Spirit)
Cesare Nebbia · ca. 1576

Pentacalia polymera (Klatt) Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993

Saint Mathew and the Angel
Cesare Nebbia · 1556–1614

Pentacalia polymera (Klatt) Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993

The Assumption of the Virgin
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614

Justicia comata (L.) Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/12/84

The Contest Between Athena and Poseidon for the Possession of Athens
Cesare Nebbia · 1570s

Joaquin Cesar de Figaniere e Morao and Danel J. Desmond
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Standing Figure of a Warrior King
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614

Sciurus granatensis splendidus
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1942

Banquet Scene: A Seated Warrior Attended by a Number of Servants (recto); Back View of a Standing Man in a Long Cloak (verso)
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614

Rhipidomys venezuelae
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1942

Moses and Other Figures
Cesare Nebbia · 1570–80

Tayassu pecari spiradens
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1943

Building
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614

Pecari tajacu torvus
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1942

Saint John the Evangelist
Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1598–99

Cerdocyon thous aquilus
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1943

Leopardus wiedii pirrensis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1943

Sciurus granatensis splendidus
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1943
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5605 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-07 13:57 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.