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 “Cupid about to fire an arrow” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cupid about to fire an arrow
Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

America
Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1801

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Venus and Cupid
Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1528

Venus and Cupid
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1525–27

Thetis and Cupid Riding Fish
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1820

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795-1800

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1820

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)
Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

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

Study for "The Education of Cupid"
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1917

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1540

Frieze
Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1810–20

Fire screen
Ferdinand Hundt · ca. 1736–40

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel)
Gian Marco Cavalli · ca. 1500

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790-1795
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. 638 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. 1029092 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-28 01:22 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.