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 “Peixotto, Ernest Clifford” — 45 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Untitled
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

Young Clifford Finding the Body of his Father, from "L'Artiste"
Eugène Delacroix · 1834

Church in Badonviller
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-04

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

The Church, Grandpre
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

Thiaucourt Church After the Final Bombardment
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

The Rhine at Coblenz
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-12

German Shelters Near Varennes
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-10

Rambucourt
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

Ruins of Seicheprey
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-09

A Billet, Neuvilly
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

The Marne at Jaulgonne
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-08-01

Chateau Thierry
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918-06

Machine Gun Battalion at Drill
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · ca 1918
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 2 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. 27965 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-04 09:53 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.