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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 with Sculptures” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Stage Design: Staircase with Sculptures
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Stage Design, Interior of Palace Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Stage Design: Staircase in Park
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700
Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'
Israel Silvestre · 1654
Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase
Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1710
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Stage Design, Egyptian Town
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century
Stage design with allegorical figures on a staircase; from 'L'Eta Dell'Oro'
Carlo Antonio Forti · ca. 1690
Stage Design, Egyptian Temple
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century
Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right
Domenico Fossati · 1743–84
Stage Design, Courtyard of an Egyptian Temple
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Staircase Balustrade Design
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Title Page and Design for a Staircase Balustrade
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496
Het Loo Palace, Staircase
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700
Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century
Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Stage Design: Two Palace Staircases
Domenico Scelzo, Italian, active ca. 1775 - 1800 · 1770–1780
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. 206 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. 845487 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 04:07 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.