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Images / art

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 Georg Christoph Fries” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:53 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Costume Study for Konstanze in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Konstanze in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Four Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Four Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Study for Blonde in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Blonde in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Four Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Four Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Study for Bassa Selim in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Bassa Selim in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Six Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Six Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Study for Belmonte in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Belmonte in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Four Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Four Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Study for Osmin in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Osmin in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Six Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Six Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Study for Pedrillo in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart, by Johann Georg Christoph Fries

Costume Study for Pedrillo in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Title Page

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria, by Isidor Canevale

Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria

Isidor Canevale · ca. 1765–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Plate 6 from "Stuben-Ofen", by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Plate 6 from "Stuben-Ofen"

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8 from "Stuben-Ofen", by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Plate 8 from "Stuben-Ofen"

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1 from "Stuben-Ofen", by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Plate 1 from "Stuben-Ofen"

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Plate 17 from "Stuben-Ofen", by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Plate 17 from "Stuben-Ofen"

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Calamagrostis x hartmanniana Fries.

Calamagrostis x hartmanniana Fries.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richter's Werke (binder's title), by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Richter's Werke (binder's title)

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Mask Designs, by Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733

Mask Designs

Johann Leonhard Eisler, German, 1672 – 1733 · 1720-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 124 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 202341 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-01 06:53 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.