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. 12 shown for “Montia fontana L.” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:02 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.

The Abduction of Dejanira
Annibale Fontana · 16th century

Hercules and Nessus
Annibale Fontana · before 1584

Hercules and Acheloüs
Annibale Fontana · before 1584

Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome
Carlo Fontana · 1652–1725

The vision of Ezekiel, with the dead rising and putting on their flesh, God the Father above in the sky
Giovanni Battista Fontana · 1579

Catafalque for Pope Sixtus V, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura"
Giovanni Maggi · 1591

Dish with The Discovery of Achilles
Fontana workshops · ca. 1555–60

Design for a Festival Float or Barge
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1530–40

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century CE

Bowl with Bahram Gur and Azada
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
![[Studio Portrait: Person Wearing White Robe and Face Covering Hood, Naples], by Giorgio Conrad](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-15801-007.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Studio Portrait: Person Wearing White Robe and Face Covering Hood, Naples]
Giorgio Conrad · 1860s–70s
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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-09-06 01:02 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.