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 “Martin Johann Schmidt” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:06 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 Rearing of Satyrs' Children
Martin Johann Schmidt · 1771

The Dying Savior
Artist not stated in the record · 1764

St. James the Greater Preaching
Martin Johann Schmidt · ca. 1764
Enteropogon rupestris (J.A. Schmidt) A. Chev.
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Martin Johann Schmidt · 18th century

Ocotea tessmannii O.C. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1929

Saint Anthony and the Christ Child Surrounded by Cherubs
Martin Johann Schmidt · 18th century

Richelia intracellularis Johs. Schmidt in Ostenf. & Johs. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1900

An Oriental Astronomer in His Study
Martin Johann Schmidt · 18th century

Pelagothrix clevei Johs. Schmidt in Ostenf. & Johs. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1900

Three Men in a Landscape near Sculptures
Martin Johann Schmidt · 18th century

Rhabdonia schmidtii Reinbold in Johs. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record

Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

George Washington
Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800 · c. 1775-80

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Brachytrichia maculans Gomont in Johs. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record

Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1838

Ocotea munaceansis O.C. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 1909 to 1914

Presumed portrait of Angelo Soliman (1721–1796)
Johann Martin Bückle · 1777

Myosotis alpestris F.W. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /5/84 to /6/84

Ewer and stand (présentoir)
Martin Gizl · 1758

Bidens pilosa var. radiata (Sch. Bip.) J.A. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1936

Candlestick (one of a pair)
Johann Martin Satzger I · 1753–55

Bidens pilosa var. radiata (Sch. Bip.) J.A. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1930 to Feb 1930
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. 325 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. 47963 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-01 02:06 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.