OpenTwo 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, Staircase in a Half-Ruined Building” — 43 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:08 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, Staircase in a Half-Ruined Building
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE
Stage Design: Staircase in Park
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700
The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65
Lazaretto at Hebron, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 12-15, 1868
Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568
Siloam and the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 7 and 10, 1868
A Cardinal's Procession
Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano) · 1621
Stage Design, A Forum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right
Domenico Fossati · 1743–84
Stage Design, Ruined Farm Building Interior
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · 1810–30
Theatrical scene with four figures on a staircase in the distance, two of which are engaged in a brawl
Mathäus Küsel · ca. 1660–82
Stage Design: Architectural Capriccio with a Tempietto and Broken Columns
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90
Design for a Stage Set
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1748-1778)
Artist not stated in the record · 1748–78
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Building Façade
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90
Stage Design, Valley with Classical Ruins
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century
Roman Interior
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760
Stage Design: Architectural Fantasy
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · early 18th century
Medea Rejuvenating Aeson
Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1760
Tea Caddy
Unidentified · 1760-1800
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Tea Caddy
Unidentified · 1750-1780
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. 182 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. 19 matched · 19 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 04:08 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.