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: Arcade Leading to a Garden” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Garden Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Stage Design: Arcade Leading to a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Cabinet
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Stage Design: A Royal Palace at the Seaside
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Stage Design, A Porticoed Bridge
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 1815–1830

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Stage Design: Open Temple in a Garden
Unknown, Italian · 1750–1800

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

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

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

Staircase to Arcade in Bishop’s Palace
Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design: Palace Garden Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Stage Design: Palace in Clouds
Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1714

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Design for a Stage Set: Stairway and Arcades Leading to a Salone
Giovanni Battista Natali III · 1698–1765

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1750–99
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. 270 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2738666 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 01:15 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.