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 sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1745

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

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

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Design for the Artist’ Sepulchral Monument
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1782

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1820–1835

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon
Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1784

Sepulchral monuments
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

"The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night", Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525–30

Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy
Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Venus Marina
Girolamo Campagna · late 16th century–early 17th century

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Project for a Sepulchral Monument (Mausoleum)
Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · 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. 242 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2595201 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 2026-09-03 19:27 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.