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 “Georg Philipp Rugendas II” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Three Musicians and Harlequin in an Ornamental Frame
Georg Philipp Rugendas II · 1720–74

A Military Operation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720-1740

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge
Georg Philipp Rugendas · 1722

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Trumpeters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Cavalry Men at Rest
Georg Philipp Rugendas · late 17th–mid-18th century

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Lieutenant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Standard-Bearer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Watch
Nicolaus Rugendas the Younger · ca. 1670

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Corporal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Ring with the Name of Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71)
Artist not stated in the record · 1464–71

Suite of Cavalry Officers: General of the Army
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Dedication Page of a Suite of Cavalry Officers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

DECORATION DU THRONE ELEVÉ AU BALCON DE L’APARTEMENT DE L’INFANTE. Pour leurs Majesté et la famille Royalle, à l’occasion de la feste que la Ville a donnée sur le bassin de la Rivierre de Seine, en Rejouissance du Mariage de Madame premiere de France, avec Dom Philippes II. Infante d’Espagne, le 29 Aoust 1739; Executée par les Bâtiments du Roy. Sur les Dessins de Mr. Gabriel, premier Architecte du Roy.
François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754 · after 1739

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
Annibale Carracci · ca. 1600

DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy.
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · after 1739

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Uve (sic) du Couvent de St. Cosimato (no. II)
Francois Morel, French, born France 1768-died Rome, Italy after 1830
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. 249 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. 227421 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 2026-08-28 14:33 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.