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, Porticoes with View of a Park” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dining room from Kirtlington Park
John Sanderson · 1748

Stage Design, Porticoes with View of a Park
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Stage Design, Renaissance Portico
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

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

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Stage Design, Portico with Buildings
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

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

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Stage Design of the Elevation of a Pergola
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

View near Rouen
Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825

Alternate Views of a Domed Building with Portico
Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1700

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Stage Design, Portico with Monument
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

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

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

Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
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. 391 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. 4223873 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 2026-09-05 05:25 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.