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 “Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Surprised, or Infidelity Found Out
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Satyr in the Peasant's House
Artist not stated in the record · 1741

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1760s

St. Phillip Baptizing the Ethiopian
Artist not stated in the record · 1740

Christ Healing the Sick
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Nymphs Bathing Near a Cave
Artist not stated in the record · 1741

Saint Francis Reading
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1747

The Sermon on the Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Study of a Plant
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1712–74

Pont Rustique
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

The Satyr and the Peasant
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1764

Landscape with House Near a Waterfall
Artist not stated in the record · 1764

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Christian Wilhelm Hufeland
Artist not stated in the record

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Poa delicatula Wilhelms ex Tzvelev
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Jousting Armor (Rennzeug) and Matching Half-Shaffron
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90
Avena pubescens Huds.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Matchlock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Two Women
Paul Gauguin · 1901 or 1902
Acrospelion rigidum ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

The Siesta
Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

5m Wilhelm II Speaking at Empire's 25th Anniversary Celebration die proof
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
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. 48 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. 35254 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 07:29 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.