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 “Country scenes” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Country scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Country scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes
Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Country Scene
Jasper Francis Cropsey, American, 1823–1900 · 1847

Candlestick with Enthronement Scene
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 13th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Offering Table of Tjaenhesret, priest of Thoth, son of Iaa
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Pocket book
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Dites Merci
Meillier et Cie · ca. 1798

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase with scenes of storm on land
Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Les Monuments du Midi
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Vase with scenes of storm at sea
Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Textile
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1780–1790

Wedding Cup in case
Robert Hennell III · 1864

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1791

The Villa Loredan, Paese
Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
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. 814 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 6521222 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 2026-09-03 09:44 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.