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. 15 shown for “Luigi Calamatta, Italian, 1802 - 1869” — 43 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a young girl
Luigi Calamatta · 1832

Male Nude
Luigi Calamatta, Italian, 1802 - 1869 · 1825–1850

Portrait of Niccolò Paganini
Luigi Calamatta · 1830 (backdated "1818")

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Portrait of George Sand
Luigi Calamatta · 1837

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Three Designs for Candlesticks
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Ugolino and His Sons
Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829 · 1814–1825
![The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9277_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1595

Deer Hunt with Bow and Arrow
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–99

Three Designs for Candlesticks
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Three Designs for Candlesticks
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Stage Design, Indian Palace Garden for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

Portrait of Giuseppe Chialli (active 1800-1839)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29818 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-05 07:05 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.