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 “Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis
Hendrick Goudt · 1612

Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis
Artist not stated in the record · 1612

Jupiter and Mercury reveal themselves to Philemon and Baucis
Elie-Honoré Montagny · 1809

Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis
Anonymous · ca. 1627–70

Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1620

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Baucis and Philemon
Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont · 18th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Olympus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

The Reign of Jupiter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

Pillars of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 7-13, 1868

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1815

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1810-1823
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. 30 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. 3116122 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 11:48 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.