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 “Grotesque Design; verso: a Landscape” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 02:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Landscape
Gillis van Coninxloo · late 16th, early 17th century

Grotesque Design; verso: a Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Landscape: verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Lucretia
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Design for a Fountain with Landscape
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

The Siren's Grotto at Tivoli
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1813

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Grotesque Designs and Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen
Bernard van Orley · 1530–35

Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Pageant
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Semi-Circular Design with Grotesques and a Central Medaillon containing a Landscape
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Grotesque Exedra Design
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) · 1489–90

Four Studies of a Foot
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

Fortified Wall at Tivoli
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Decorative Studies of Ceilings with Grotesque; Studies of Monument with Papal Seale, Sisto V
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18
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. 354 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1798593 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 2026-09-07 02:35 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.