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. 12 shown for “Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844” — 16 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Nativity of Christ, with Shepherds and Kings in Adoration
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · ca. 1782–1844

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Design for a Wall Decorated with Grotesque
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Chapel in a Gothic Church (recto); Outline sketch of an oval form (verso)
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Scene of Antique Sacrifice
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Man Assisting a Woman to Mount a Horse, with Two Other Figures and a Dog
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular and Horizontal reliefs
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular Reliefs
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Venetian Capriccio: Landscape with a Farm Building, Sarcophagus, and Fountain (recto); Monument (verso)
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · n.d.
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. 16 matched · 16 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:14 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.