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 “Giuseppe Canale” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Judith slaying Holofernes
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

4-cent, Ordinary Postal Card Printing Plate
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

Madonna and Child
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Canal Zone Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1931

Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Canal Zone Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1931

Seated woman winding yarn
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

New Issue Postal Cards and Stamped Envelopes Press Release
Artist not stated in the record · 1958

Putto reclining on a bed
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

New Issue Air Post Envelope Press Release
Artist not stated in the record · 1963

Seated woman holding a fan
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

Woman combing her hair
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

Woman standing holding a mirror
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

Madonna and Child
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

4-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

The Holy Family
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

3-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1934

Female figure seated in a long dress
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

2-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1932
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. 44 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. 45038 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 14:15 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.