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 “Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins
Albrecht Dürer · 1496

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

The Twelve Ages of a Man: The Second Three Ages (18-36), or Summer
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1515

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800

Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules
Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587 · 1562

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · 1542–48

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

The Death of Hercules
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1597

Hercules Killing Cacus
Artist not stated in the record · 1588

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 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. 1187759 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-06 06:35 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.