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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 “Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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.
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Projet de la chapelle de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the St. Sulpice Chapel of Paris), plate 101, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de la chapelle de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the St. Sulpice Chapel of Paris), plate 101, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tomb, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of a Tomb

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the decoration of a chapel

Project for the decoration of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Engrance Hall Hotel Roquelaure, Towards the Chapel, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Engrance Hall Hotel Roquelaure, Towards the Chapel

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, View into Apse

Stage Design, View into Apse

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Section of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir

Section of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: west wall, offering bearers

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: west wall, offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Abel's Tomb, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Abel's Tomb, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 4, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oratory Chapel

Oratory Chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Tomb Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
The Tomb of Clara-Maria of Saxony, by Giovanni Folo

The Tomb of Clara-Maria of Saxony

Giovanni Folo · ca. 1800-1810

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. 283 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. 4159928 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-26 18:20 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.