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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 “Esther Pleading Before Ahasuerus” — 52 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Esther Pleading Before Ahasuerus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540–60
Queen Esther and Ahasuerus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s
Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1658
The Reeling of Silk
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595
Esther before Ahasuerus
Anonymous, French, 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century
![Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9290_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605
Esther Before Ahasuerus
Lucas van Leyden · 1518
Cleopatra Pleading with Caesar
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820
Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12)
Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615
Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the Galleria di Achille, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Italy
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05
The Story of Esther
Marco del Buono Giamberti
Remus Kills King Amulius; Remus Led in Chains before King Amulius; Two Studies After Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22
The Triumph of Mordecai
Jean François de Troy · ca. 1736
Woman Pleading for a Soldier's Life
Victor Semon Pérard, American, 1870–1957 · ca. 1905
Surface Decoration, Grotesque with Strapwork, Burial Scene in the Tempietto, in the Bas Relief Esther before Ahasuerus from Veelderleij Veranderinghe van grotissen ende Compertimenten...Libro Primo
Cornelis Floris II · 1556
Esther before Ahasverus
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
Cupboard (Beeldenkast)
Artist not stated in the record · 1622
Daniel in the Lion's Den
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47
Esther before Ahasverus
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Massimo Stanzione · ca. 1640
Figure Praying before Shrine of Christ
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon, Scottish, born Aberdeen, Scotland 1884-died Banchory, Scotland 1934 · 1925
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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. 14662 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-05 00:12 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.