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. 15 shown for “Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872” — 15 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.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Gustave Adolph Pettrich?
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · 1840

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Joel R. Poinsett
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872

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

William Norris
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · ca. 1838-1842

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Joel R. Poinsett
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · 1841

Martin Van Buren
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · ca. 1837-1838

John Vaughan
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · 1842

Washington Resigning His Commission
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · ca. 1841

Mrs. Frederich Augustus Ferdinand Pettrich
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · ca. 1835

Self-Portrait
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · 1840

The Dying Tecumseh
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · modeled ca. 1837-1846, carved 1856

Andrew Jackson
Ferdinand Pettrich, 1798 - 1872 · replica of 1836 original
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - 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.