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 “Giovanni Battista Cipriani” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Girl with Globe
Unidentified

The Crucifixion, with the lowering of the cross at center, soldiers throughout, and a thief on a cross at left
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1762

State Carriage of George III
William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1805

John Milton
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Geography
Artist not stated in the record · 1788

Design for Three Panels for a Library
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1745–85

Ceres
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

The Forum of Trajan, Rome
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · late 18th–mid-19th century

Prudence and Beauty
Artist not stated in the record · 1782

The Trevi Fountain, Rome
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · late 18th–mid-19th century

The Distressed Mother
Artist not stated in the record · 1785

John Milton as a Boy
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Clytia
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

John Milton
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Love Cares'd
Artist not stated in the record · 1783

Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

The Genius of Modesty Preventing Love Unveiling Beauty
Artist not stated in the record · 1783

The Battle of Vercellae
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Minerva and Mercury
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Wisdom – Sapience
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Boys at Play
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800
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. 1242 matched · 24 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. 1777 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 11:30 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.