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. 19 shown for “John Paradise” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Francis Asbury
John Paradise, 24 Oct 1783 - 26 Sep 1833 · 1813

Paradise
Carlo Saraceni · ca. 1598

James Smithson
John Wesley Paradise, 1809 - 17 Aug 1862 · 1847

Mrs. Warren Rogers
John Paradise · ca. 1821

Micronycteris megalotis
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1979

Paradise
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) · 1565–77

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Carollia perspicillata
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1979

The Paradise Lost of John Milton with Illustrations by John Martin
John Martin · 1846

Paradise Rocks—Study at Paradise, Newport, Rhode Island
John La Farge · 1884

John Milton, Age 21 (frontispiece: Paradise Regained)
Michael Vandergucht · 1747

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Glossophaga longirostris
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1979

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation
Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1390s

Carollia perspicillata
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1979

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 707

Funerary Urn (Hunping)
Artist not stated in the record

Micronycteris megalotis
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1979
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. 137 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 263204 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-26 19:57 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.