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 “Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Guitar
Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel · late 17th century

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

San Biagio on the Giudecca
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Island of Burano
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Quinta Valle at Castello
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Head of a Bearded Man Looking to Upper Right (recto); Head of an Old Man and a Drapery Study (verso)
Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Christ Blessing
Giacomo Zoboli · 1681–1767

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Kneeling Youth Facing Left
Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Virgin and Child with Two Male Saints
Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Giacomo Glech
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Visitation of Our Lady (Luke 1:39-56)(recto); Zachariah (verso)
Giacomo Zoboli · 1681–1767

Drawing
Giacomo Palma, the younger, Italian, born Venice, Italy 1544-died Venice, Italy 1628 · n.d.

The Tower at Marghera
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835
Leptomitus lacteus (Roth) C. Agardh 1824.
Artist not stated in the record · 1856

Head of a Bearded Man (Nicodemus)
Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660
Leptomitus doriae Cesati
Artist not stated in the record · 1856
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. 64 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. 17502 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 10:25 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.