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, Church Interior” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Stage Design, Church Interior
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Roman Interior
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Stage Design, Church Interior
Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841 · early 19th century

Folding stool
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Stage Design, Church Interior
Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841 · early 19th century

Saint Peter as the First Pope
Artist not stated in the record · before 1348

Stage Design, Vaulted Church Interior
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Interior of Church
Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841 · early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · after 1829

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Cabinet
Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Stage set
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · Early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design: Gothic Hall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
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. 365 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 676069 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 2026-09-05 08:39 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.