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 “Este” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Flora with children
Este · ca. 1778–85
Bouteloua alamosana Vasey
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1968

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Chloris radiata (L.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968

Evening slippers
Esté · 1860–69
Aristida laxa Cav.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968

Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso)
Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder · 1530–86
Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968

Wedding shoes
Esté · 1840–49
Melochia nodiflora Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968

Mezzetin
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Simsia molinae H. Rob. & Brettell
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1987

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)
Daniele da Volterra · probably ca. 1545

Aegiphila paniculata Moldenke
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1968

Alexander the Great (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ring: mid-16th century; cameo: early Hellenistic 4th century BCE

Phaseolus lunatus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968

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
Serjania lobulata Standl. & Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1973 to 26 Nov 1973

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

Cordia salvadorensis Standl.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1968

Mary, Queen of Scots returning to Scotland from Calais
Ferdinand Delannoy · mid-19th century

Justicia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1968
![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

Acanthospermum hispidum DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1968
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. 1612 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 14793 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 02:06 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.