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 “Project for a Country Villa” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Project for a Country Villa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Design for a country villa
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806 · 1765-1770

The Villa Loredan, Paese
Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Project for the Elevation of a Villa
Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · late 18th century

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

Potamogeton nodosus Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1941

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

Cardinal Pamphili Villa, Facade Decorated for a Visit of Pope Clement XIII
Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1758–69

Pope Innocent X
Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Five designs for various structures for a villa
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei
Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Potamogeton nodosus Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1941

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–59

Potamogeton foliosus Raf. var. foliosus
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1941 to Aug 1941

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)
Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

Villa Almerico (Villa Rotunda), from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio (Book 2, page 19)
Andrea Palladio · 1570
Leucocroton microphyllus (A. Rich.) Pax & K. Hoffm.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1895

Neptune and the Winds
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Blanchardia clypeata subsp. cryptocarpa (A. Rich.) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1941

Alpheus and Arethusa
Battista di Domenico Lorenzi · 1568–70

Laportea cuneata (A. Rich.) Chew
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1941
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. 412 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7013548 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 13:53 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.