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. 20 shown for “Giacomo Ceruti” — 48 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Woman with a Dog
Giacomo Ceruti · 1740s

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

An Old Man with a Dog
Giacomo Ceruti · 1740s

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

A Woman Spinning (recto); A Woman Holding a Bundle (verso)
Giacomo Ceruti · 18th century

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

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

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

The Lacemaker
Bernhard Keil · ca. 1665

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

A Peasant Family
Antoine Le Nain · ca. 1640–48

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

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

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

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

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

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

Drawing
Giacomo Palma, the younger, Italian, born Venice, Italy 1544-died Venice, Italy 1628 · n.d.
Leptomitus lacteus (Roth) C. Agardh 1824.
Artist not stated in the record · 1856
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 86 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 02:51 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.