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. 11 shown for “Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rev. Joseph Pilmore
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1787

Thomas Jefferson
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1897

Caldwell Sister
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1782

Caldwell Sister
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1782

Mrs. James Smith and Grandson
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1776

Colonel John Cox
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1778

Capt. John Gassoway
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1790

Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1780

General John Cadwalader
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1788

Le Duc de Liancourt
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca.1794-1797

Matthias and Thomas Bordley
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1767
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:44 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.