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Images / art

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 “Scherzi di Fantasia” — 57 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 05:47 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Frontispiece, from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Frontispiece, from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated magician, boy and four figures from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Seated magician, boy and four figures from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50

Public domainThe Met
Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50

Public domainThe Met
Two Philosophers and Boy, plate 22 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Two Philosophers and Boy, plate 22 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A scene of necromancy: a woman bearing a vessel, a turbaned man, and a soldier look toward a pedestal upon which a skull and limb bone are burning, a bearded male figure's face is visible behind the group, from "Turns of fantasy" (Scherzi di fantasia), by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A scene of necromancy: a woman bearing a vessel, a turbaned man, and a soldier look toward a pedestal upon which a skull and limb bone are burning, a bearded male figure's face is visible behind the group, from "Turns of fantasy" (Scherzi di fantasia)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–57

Public domainThe Met
Woman with Two Children and a Donkey, plate 21 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Woman with Two Children and a Donkey, plate 21 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-dressed Nymph with two children, surrounded by four men, from the Scherzi, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Half-dressed Nymph with two children, surrounded by four men, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50

Public domainThe Met
Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young shepherdess and old man with a monkey, from the Scherzi, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Young shepherdess and old man with a monkey, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1757–1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Saint John the Baptist, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Young Saint John the Baptist

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1480–82

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return from the Hunt, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scherzo di Fantasia: Standing Warrior and King with Five Attendants, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Scherzo di Fantasia: Standing Warrior and King with Five Attendants

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scherzo di Fantasia: Seated Warrior Holding a Serpent, and Standing Youth, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Scherzo di Fantasia: Seated Warrior Holding a Serpent, and Standing Youth

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Public domainThe Met
Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Public domainThe Met
Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 17383 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-26 05:47 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.