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 “Cephas Giovanni Thompson” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:29 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.

Spring
Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Ophelia (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Mrs. Cephas Thompson (Olivia Leonard)
Cephas Thompson · ca. 1810–20

Male Figure Running
Giovanni Lanfranco · 1582–1647

Saint Gregory the Great Interceding for Souls in Purgatory
Giovanni Odazzi · 1663–1731

Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1691–1765

Death of Dido
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli · 1620–40

Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess (after Gaulli)
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · 1639–1709

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and three other Saints
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Saint Cecilia, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Saint Agnes, Angels with Palm Branches and Crowns Above (recto); Sketches of Three Standing Figures and Arithmetic Calculations (verso)
Panfilo Nuvolone · ca. 1609

Female Figure with Cherubs
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47
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. 201 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 00:29 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.