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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 Park” — 64 records examined, 1 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.
Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire
Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80
Stage Design: Staircase in Park
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Fantasy. A staircase in a park, in ruins.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65
Stage Design, Staircases
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641
Stage Design, Interior of Palace Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Stage Design, Imaginary City
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century
Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right
Domenico Fossati · 1743–84
Stage Design, Staircase in Palace
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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, Palace Courtyards and Staircases
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Medea Rejuvenating Aeson
Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1760
Stage Design: Two Palace Staircases
Domenico Scelzo, Italian, active ca. 1775 - 1800 · 1770–1780
The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720
Stage Design: Staircase with Sculptures
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Stage Design, Portico with Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Stage design with allegorical figures on a staircase; from 'L'Eta Dell'Oro'
Carlo Antonio Forti · ca. 1690
Stage Design, Staircase in a Half-Ruined Building
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Stage Design; Palace Courtyard with Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 61 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. 7464098 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 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.