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: Palace Garden Architecture” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:17 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: Palace Garden Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Five marble architectural fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–92 CE

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

Garden Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Stage Design: Palace architecture
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1750–1800

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1700–1720

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

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Stage Design: Palace Architecture with Trophies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs
Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1700–1750

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)
Josef Platzer · mid-18th–early 19th century

Stage Design, Indian Palace Garden for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · ca. 1680–1710

Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase
Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1710

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825

Stage Design, Palace and Gardens on Hill
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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. 122 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 693789 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 2026-09-04 02:17 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.