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 “Ludovico Carracci” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Lamentation
Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Self-Portrait of A. N. Carracci
John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

Madonna and Child with Saints
Ludovico Carracci · 1607

Adoration of the Magi study after Lodovico Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1820

The Denial of Saint Peter
Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1616

The Facade of Modena Cath
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Conversion of Saint Paul
Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1587–89

Madonna and Child, Study after Lodovico Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Ludovico Carracci · 1555–1619

Four Herms, Studies after the Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci

Blinded Soldier, Detail from the Conversion of St. Paul, Study after Agostino Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595

St. Anthony and the Hermits, Study after Lodovico Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1809–18

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

The Apostles Carrying the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb, Study after Lodovico Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom
Francesco Brizio · 1603

Acanthus motif with two birds
Artist not stated in the record · 1589–1614

The Return from Egypt
Francesco Brizio · 1595–1623

Glauco and Scylla, study after Agostino Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

The Return from Egypt
Francesco Brizio · 1595–1623

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Saint Benedict exorcising a demon
Simone Cantarini · ca. 1637–39

Four Putti Making Music, Study after Lodovico Carracci; Christ, Study after Massari
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22
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. 41 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. 59 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 03:14 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.