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, Building Adjoining Park Scenery” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 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

Stage Design, Building Adjoining Park Scenery
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Mill River Scenery
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1857–68

Remains of an Ancient Building Near Firoz Shah's Cotilla, Delhi, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

The Writer's Buildings, Calcutta, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65
"American Cities A.D. Scenery. City Hall New York"
Old Hall Works, English, 1835–1849 · mid-19th century

Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)
Auguste Renoir · 1914

Adjoining Buildings with Church Tower, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Sketches of a Tower and Trees, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 1892

Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge
Antonio Joli · ca. 1745

Stage Design: Staircase in Park
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

VIEW of the/ CAPITOL AT/ WASHINGTON/ W.R.
William Ridgway & Co. · ca. 1840–ca. 1854

Stage Design, Antique Views in Garden
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

City Hall / New York
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Mixed Sketches along the Danube
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 9-17, 1868

Veue du chasteau de Versailles (View of Versailles, garden facade)
Adam Perelle · 1680s

Possible Design for Relief; Scene in Circle, Ornaments in Corners
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

CITY HALL NEW YORK.
Charles Meigh · ca. 1835–ca. 1849

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - July, 1868

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Rooftops, Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · November 1868 - April 1869
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. 26 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. 791542 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 23:21 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.