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. 12 shown for “Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

A Group of Saints and Angels (recto); Studies of a Male Figure in a Pendentive (verso)
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1613–99

Saint John the Baptist Preaching
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · ca. 1650

Seated Bishop with Arms Extended and Three Attendant Figures (recto); Head of a Lion and Perspective Diagrams (verso)
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1613–99

Saint in Ecstasy
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1613–99

Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, after Mattia Preti
François André Vincent · ca. 1774

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1761

Plate 8: Canonization of Saint Catherine of Siena; Pius II seated on a throne at right, blessing his nephew, Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, who kneels before him; after Mattia Preti
Giuliano Traballesi · 1760–80

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1764

Saint Celestine V Renouncing the Papacy, after Mattia Preti
Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1761

Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law from God who descends from the heavens; from the series of 112 prints of the sacred history, after the painting by Mattia Preti
Pietro Monaco · ca. 1730–39
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. 15 matched · 15 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 03:18 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.