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, Interior of Gothic Church” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 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, Interior of Gothic Church
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

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

Roman Interior
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

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

Bread plate
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1850

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

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross
Hans Schäufelein · ca. 1510

Stage Design: Gothic Hall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

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

Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan
Wenzel von Olmütz · 1490–99

Interior of Gothic Cathedral
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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

Interior of the Sint-Pieterskerk, 's-Hertogenbosch
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam · 1632

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Gothic Archway
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Chapel
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. 568 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. 3222142 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 09:44 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.