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 “Sketch of Apollo, the nine Muses and Pegasus upon the summit of the Helicon” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Sketch of Apollo, the nine Muses and Pegasus upon the summit of the Helicon
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Allegory of Painting and Ornament
Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1805

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800 - 1810

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Thirteen Apollo Subjects for Ceiling
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

Nine Circular Compositions with Diety Subject Matter
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

The Story of Telemachus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

The Poet on Pegasus Entering the Realm of the Muses
Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918 · by 1890

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1801 (?)

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Sepulchral Monument of the Philosopher Count Alessandro Verri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795–1809

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican
Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · ca. 1782

Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Stage Curtain Design: Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1812
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. 57 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. 3212654 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 2026-09-05 11:00 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.