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, Buildings on Riverside” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Stage Design, Buildings on Riverside
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Stage Design: Exterior of Circular Building
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design, Temples on Riverside
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set
Claude Nicolas Ledoux

River Landscape with Two Buildings Connected by a Bridge
Artist not stated in the record · 1525

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Stits SA-2A Sky Baby
Ray Stits

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, View of Town on Hillside
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1800

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Stage Design, Group of Temple Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape
Antonio Mauro II · 1784–97

Stage Design, Antique Buildings
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Buildings
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1831
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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1540162 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 09:40 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.