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. 19 shown for “Matteo Torelli, Italian” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument
Matteo Torelli, Italian · 1822

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Gammarus torelli
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1950

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani
Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667 · 1665

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Osmunda torelli Heer
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)
Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667 · 1665

Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'
Israel Silvestre · 1654

Diplodonta torelli aleutica
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'
Israel Silvestre · 1654

Standing Cloaked Male Figure
Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650 · 1610–30
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1968

Melloni Bench
Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel · early 1840s
Bastardiastrum incanum (Brandegee) D.M. Bates
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1968

Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1944

Design for a Decorative Vase
Unknown · 1750–1800
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. 534 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6318 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 12:57 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.