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. 14 shown for “Giorgio Fossati” — 42 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![Varij Disegni de Camini de Gabineti [sic], by Giorgio Fossati](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-28298-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Varij Disegni de Camini de Gabineti [sic]
Giorgio Fossati · 1740

Ranunculus velutinus Ten.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1913

Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right
Domenico Fossati · 1743–84

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934 · 1898

Catafalque of Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti
Sebastiano Cipriani, Italian, 1660 - 1740 · 1686

Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio
Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1900

San Giorgio, Venice
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1900

Study for a Tribute to Giorgio Vasari
Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790 · ca. 1781

Silene giraldii Gussone
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1913

Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Planch.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1903
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902

Gladiolus communis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Carex humilis Leyss.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1870
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 63 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-04 02:15 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.