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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 “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

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.
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1639

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: verso: Grotesque Design

Landscape: verso: Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design

Landscape; verso: Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"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

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque Design; verso: a Landscape

Grotesque Design; verso: a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with Landscape, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Fountain with Landscape

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen, by Bernard van Orley

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

Bernard van Orley · 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
The Siren's Grotto at Tivoli, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Siren's Grotto at Tivoli

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semi-Circular Design with Grotesques and a Central Medaillon containing a Landscape, by Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Semi-Circular Design with Grotesques and a Central Medaillon containing a Landscape

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies of Ceilings with Grotesque; Studies of Monument with Papal Seale, Sisto V, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies of Ceilings with Grotesque; Studies of Monument with Papal Seale, Sisto V

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Design for a doorway (verso), by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Design for a doorway (verso)

Eugène Cicéri · 1828–90

Public domainThe Met
Four Decorative Studies of Ceilings; Verso: Anatomical Studies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Decorative Studies of Ceilings; Verso: Anatomical Studies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies of Toes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies of Toes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesques Designs with Various Inscriptions (recto); Candelabra Grotesque and Two Putti Holding Flowers (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Grotesques Designs with Various Inscriptions (recto); Candelabra Grotesque and Two Putti Holding Flowers (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies of Candelabra; Verso: Masculine Heads, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies of Candelabra; Verso: Masculine Heads

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1817

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. 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.