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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Celebration
Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1675–1719

Plate 3 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

View of the Church of the Franciscans in Nuremberg under Reconstruction, from the series Views of Nuremberg
Johann Ulrich Kraus · n.d.

Plate 2 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the final ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse'
Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1700

Plate 5 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the opening ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse'
Johann Ulrich Kraus · ca. 1700

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

Final ballet of 'L'Euleo festeggiante nel ritorno d'Alessandro dall'India'
Johann Ulrich Kraus · 1699

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

Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur (5 parts)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach · 1725

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

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

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

Double Bass
Johann Ulrich Eberle · 1734

Plate 1 from a Set of Trophies of Weapons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1665

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

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

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525)
Hans Maler · 1525

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

The Author Writing the Layenspiegel; The Trinity and the Virgin at the Upper Center, from "Der Neue Layenspiegel"
Hans Schäufelein · 1511

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

Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?)
Ulrich Apt the Elder · 1512

Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, 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. 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.