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 “Johann Christian Sick” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Johann Christian Wiegleb
Artist not stated in the record

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Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Johann Christian Preis
Artist not stated in the record

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Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Christian VIII
Artist not stated in the record · n.d.a.

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Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Clavichord
Christian Kintzing · 1763

Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)
Christian Krohg · 1879

Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1838

Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight
Johan Christian Dahl · 1846

Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

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

Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Christ Healing the Sick
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731
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. 231 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. 17973 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.