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Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Garden Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Garden Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five marble architectural fragments

Five marble architectural fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–92 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Fountain

Garden Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace architecture, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design: Palace architecture

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?), by Daniel Marot the Elder

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1700–1720

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture with Trophies

Stage Design: Palace Architecture with Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso), by Josef Platzer

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Josef Platzer · mid-18th–early 19th century

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

Stage Design, Indian Palace Garden for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · ca. 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase, by Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701

Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase

Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace and Gardens on Hill

Stage Design, Palace and Gardens on Hill

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.