OpenTwo 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. 12 shown for “Mathäus Küsel” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Text to accompany plate illustrating the fireworks display celebrating the birth of Prince Max Emmanuel of Bavaria, Munich, 1662
Mathäus Küsel · 1662
Leopold I of Austria as Jupiter with his wife enthroned in the clouds, looking down on the struggling giants below
Mathäus Küsel · ca. 1659–82
The Elysian Fields; set design from 'La Monarchia Latina Trionfante'
Mathäus Küsel · 1678
Theatrical scene with four figures on a staircase in the distance, two of which are engaged in a brawl
Mathäus Küsel · ca. 1660–82
Two women holding a banner at center as a phoenix rises above; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
Marsh of Triton; figures battling as Minerva looks on from above; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'
Mathäus Küsel · 1668
Two men in classical armor and two women looking at the mechanical devices on either side of an open courtyard; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
A large gathering of people in the street as a goddess races across the sky in a chariot led by four horses; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
Kingdom of Jove with the banquet of the gods; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'
Mathäus Küsel · 1668
A woman standing on an empty street, gazing up at the Olympian gods in the sky; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
The Arsenal; two soldiers conversing with two women on the right as a group of soldiers look on from the left; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
A large group gathered in a courtyard before a domed structure; musicians play at left; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'
Mathäus Küsel · 1674
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. 48 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 23:21 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.