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 “Luigi Pesce” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 10:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teheran
Luigi Pesce · 1858

E. Luigi Persico
Eastman Johnson, 29 Jul 1824 - 5 Apr 1906 · c. 1847
![[Persepolis], by Luigi Pesce](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP163283.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Persepolis]
Luigi Pesce · 1850s

Luigi Elena and Annibale Elena
Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · c. 1855

British Legation, Teheran
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Ugolino and His Sons
Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829 · 1814–1825

Tomba sulla rocca a Persepolis
Luigi Pesce · 1858

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

Yran, Piazza a Isphaan
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Drawing
Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

Bagh-takt a chiraz
Luigi Pesce · 1858

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

Zerghiandeh. Russian Minister's Country House, Teheran
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Drawing
Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

Processione sulla facciata della grande scala
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Luigi Carrara Oliver
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Ruine sulla prima terrazza, Persepolis
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Luigi XVI
Unidentified · n.d.

Teheran. Prime Minister's House (Nezanneh)
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Louis XVI, Roi de France
Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

Ruine sulla terza terazza, Persepolis
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Marie Antoinette, Reine de France
Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

Tombe de Ciro a Morgab
Luigi Pesce · 1858

Charles Philippe de France
Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810 · n.d.
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. 96 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. 468 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-30 10:28 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.