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 “Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30

Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Stage Curtain Design: Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1812

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

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

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1801

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

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

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

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

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

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

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

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

The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1879

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Panneau de Cabinet
François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788
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. 302 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. 2051379 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 09:25 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.