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 “Landscape: verso: Grotesque Design” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1639

Landscape: verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Grotesque Design; verso: a Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Design for a Fountain with Landscape
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen
Bernard van Orley · 1530–35

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

The Siren's Grotto at Tivoli
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1813

Semi-Circular Design with Grotesques and a Central Medaillon containing a Landscape
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Decorative Studies of Ceilings with Grotesque; Studies of Monument with Papal Seale, Sisto V
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Design for a doorway (verso)
Eugène Cicéri · 1828–90

Four Decorative Studies of Ceilings; Verso: Anatomical Studies
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Lucretia
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso)
Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies of Toes
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Grotesques Designs with Various Inscriptions (recto); Candelabra Grotesque and Two Putti Holding Flowers (verso)
Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Decorative Studies of Candelabra; Verso: Masculine Heads
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1817
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. 360 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. 105472 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-07 04:07 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.