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 “Sleeping Venus and Cupid” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venus
Massimiliano Soldani · 18th century

Sleeping Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1610

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Sketches for the Judgement of Paris
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1680

Venus and Cupid
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1525–27

Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Venus and Cupid
Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1528

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Venus and Cupid
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1815

Cupid and Psyche
Antonio Canova · 1794

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

Venus and Sleeping Cupid
Hans Stutte · 1600–1625

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan
Gérard de Lairesse, Dutch, 1641–1711 · ca. 1700

Cupid and Psyche
Auguste Rodin · before 1893

Cupid and Psyche
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1810

Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1790

Venus Marina, Cupid at Her Side
Benedetto Pistrucci · ca. 1820–30

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

Mercury and Cupid
Francesco Fanelli · late 1630s

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 314 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1464420 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 08:58 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.