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. 12 shown for “Tympanuchus cupido cupido” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Cupid's Skeleton
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A skeleton with her back turned wearing a coat and hat, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A male skeleton leading a female skeleton to the left, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A profile of a skeleton with a tophat, a coat, and glasses, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

Profile of a female skeleton with a fur vest, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A skeleton in farming clothes speaking to a skeleton in a dress, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

Male skeleton wearing military dress (vignette for the feast of the dead)
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A skeleton wearing a hat having a drink (vignette for the feast of the dead)
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A skeleton wearing a bishop's mitre reading a book (vignette for the feast of the dead)
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

A male skeleton on his knees before a female skeleton (vignette for the feast of the dead)
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1892

Plate 13: Argonauts Meleager and Tydeus led by Cupid (Meleagro et Tideo Argonotes condotti da Cupido), from "The magnificent pageant on the river Arno in Florence for the marriage of the Grand Duke" (Le Magnifique carousel fait sur le fleuve de l'Arne a Florence, pour le mariage du Grand Duc)
Anonymous · 1664
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. 31 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:05 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.