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. 16 shown for “Franklin Peale” — 45 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Medal of Zachary Taylor
Franklin Peale · 1849

Portrait of Franklin and Caroline Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Medal of James Knox Polk
Franklin Peale · 1849

Benjamin Franklin
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1787

Benjamin Franklin
Charles Willson Peale · 1787

Benjamin Franklin
Unidentified Artist · c. 1790

Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)
John Hoppner · 1793

Franklin School, Washington DC
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Franklin School, Washington DC
Peale, Titian Ramsay

Le Duc de Liancourt
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca.1794-1797
Charles Willson Peale
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20

Rubens Peale
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1807

Titian and Rembrandt Peale
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

Rembrandt Peale
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1818

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait
Sarah Miriam Peale, 19 May 1800 - 4 Feb 1885 · c. 1818

Rembrandt Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 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. 24159 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-03 07:46 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.