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. 13 shown for “Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:42 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 Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1800

Design for a Theater Ceiling
Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1830

Design for Theater Ceiling
Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1820

Portrait of P. Alphonsus Nicolai of Soicety of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Study: The left arm and the neighboring parts of the body of an elderly man
Giuseppe Marchesi, called Il Sansone, Italian, 1699 – 1771 · 1725–1770

Stage Design: Gothic Hall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Portrait of Count Carlo Gaetano di Gaisruck
Artist not stated in the record · 1819

Portrait Sketch
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

Design for an Urn
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775–1800

Six Metal Frames for Purses
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

Steeple in Gothic Style
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

Three Nude men
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 79889 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 08:42 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.