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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. 21 shown for “Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös” — 49 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:18 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.
Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös

Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical figure, by François Girardon

Allegorical figure

François Girardon · 1672–75

Public domainThe Met
Engraving: Versailles, Grotto, Interior., by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Engraving: Versailles, Grotto, Interior.

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Reign of Jupiter

The Reign of Jupiter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

Public domainThe Met
Uncut waistcoat front

Uncut waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nessus Abducting Dejanira, by Bertel Thorvaldsen

Nessus Abducting Dejanira

Bertel Thorvaldsen · modeled 1814–15, carved 1821–23 or 1826

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces

Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere

Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1505–6

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sleeping Hercules

Sleeping Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505 or later

Public domainThe Met
Water Nymph and Horse, by Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926

Water Nymph and Horse

Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative Project: Three Trapezoids with Flora and Zefiro, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project: Three Trapezoids with Flora and Zefiro

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Skewers with Caduceus Terminals

Two Skewers with Caduceus Terminals

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Herms, Studies after Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Herms, Studies after Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3109005 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 02:18 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.