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 “Panel with Sketches of a Man, a Lion and an Arabesque” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Panel with Sketches of a Man, a Lion and an Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Title Page
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Arabesque Design for a Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Arabesque Design for a Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

La Terre
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Design for a Door and Overdoor
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Grotesque Ornament with Satyrs, from a set of twenty ornament panels
Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · ca. 1530–1535

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

MARS OU LA GUERRE
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 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. 1478 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. 4077564 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 2026-09-05 08:44 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.