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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 Ulrich Kraus” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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.
A Celebration, by Johann Ulrich Kraus

A Celebration

Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1675–1719

Public domainThe Met
Plate 3 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Plate 3 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Church of the Franciscans in Nuremberg under Reconstruction, from the series Views of Nuremberg, by Johann Ulrich Kraus

View of the Church of the Franciscans in Nuremberg under Reconstruction, from the series Views of Nuremberg

Johann Ulrich Kraus · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Plate 2 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the final ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse', by Johann Ulrich Kraus

The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the final ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse'

Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Plate 5 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Plate 5 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the opening ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse', by Johann Ulrich Kraus

The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the opening ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse'

Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1700

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Final ballet of 'L'Euleo festeggiante nel ritorno d'Alessandro dall'India', by Johann Ulrich Kraus

Final ballet of 'L'Euleo festeggiante nel ritorno d'Alessandro dall'India'

Johann Ulrich Kraus · 1699

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur (5 parts), by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur (5 parts)

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach · 1725

Public domainThe Met
Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Bass, by Johann Ulrich Eberle

Double Bass

Johann Ulrich Eberle · 1734

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Plate 1 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

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

Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525), by Hans Maler

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525)

Hans Maler · 1525

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Author Writing the Layenspiegel; The Trinity and the Virgin at the Upper Center, from "Der Neue Layenspiegel", by Hans Schäufelein

The Author Writing the Layenspiegel; The Trinity and the Virgin at the Upper Center, from "Der Neue Layenspiegel"

Hans Schäufelein · 1511

Public domainThe Met
Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?), by Ulrich Apt the Elder

Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?)

Ulrich Apt the Elder · 1512

Public domainThe Met
Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 6463 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.