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. 12 shown for “Esté” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Wedding shoes
Esté · 1840–49

Evening slippers
Esté · 1860–69

Flora with children
Este · ca. 1778–85

Bronze helmet of Illyrian type
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Bronze helmet of Corinthian type
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Bronze cuirass (body armor)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso)
Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder · 1530–86

Book IV, plate 7: the fountain of the Tiburtine sibyl in the garden at Villa d'Este, Tivoli, from "The fountains of the Este garden in Tivoli" (Le fontane del Giardino Estense in Tivoli)
Giovanni Francesco Venturini · ca. 1676–1700

Portrait of Isabella d'Este
Lucas Vorsterman I · 1620–30

Mary, Queen of Scots returning to Scotland from Calais
Ferdinand Delannoy · mid-19th century
![Francesco I d'Este, Wounded in Battle, Continues to Orchestrate the Seige of Pavia, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...], by Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP830783.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Francesco I d'Este, Wounded in Battle, Continues to Orchestrate the Seige of Pavia, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]
Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis) · 1659
![Despite the Corageous Opposition of the Germans and the Spanish, Francesco I d'Este, at the Head of his Armies, Arrives at the Piazza di Valeneza, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...], by Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP830787.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Despite the Corageous Opposition of the Germans and the Spanish, Francesco I d'Este, at the Head of his Armies, Arrives at the Piazza di Valeneza, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]
Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis) · 1659
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. 204 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:35 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.