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. 12 shown for “Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1650

A Seated Young Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · early–mid-17th century

Portrait of Morose Man in Half-Length
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666

Two Studies of a Kneeling Male Figure (recto); Handwritten letter (verso)
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1652

Boy Chasing a Butterfly
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666

Waist-Length Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, in Profile Facing Left
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1620s

The Virgin Immaculate
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1656

A Diablerie
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666

Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Saint Jerome Writing
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666

Four Putti with Bow and Arrows on Clouds above a Landscape with a Tower
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666
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. 86 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:38 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.