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 “Peter (frequently identified as “Gordon”)” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:06 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 Tears of Saint Peter
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · ca. 1612–13

Peter (frequently identified as “Gordon”)
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

Saint Peter and Simon Magus
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Peter
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1863

A Deerhound
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826

Gordon under Medical Inspection
Artist not stated in the record · 1863; printed later

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Byron's First Love
Sarony & Major · 1846

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Fly-Fishing for Black Bass
Bradlee Whidden · 1890

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Pterocarpus acapulcensis Rose
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1955

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

The Camp Meeting
Robinson, Henry R. · 1837

Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Mallard Shooting
Bradlee Whidden · 1890

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

The Man - Monster
Robinson, Henry R. · 1836

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Residence of A. Gordon/Gordon's Chute/Ranch of A. Gordon
Grafton Tyler Brown, born Harrisburg, PA 1841-died St. Peter, MN 1918 · n.d.

The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Kate Claxton
Armstrong and Company · n.d.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Lord Byron
Pendleton's Lithography · ca 1830
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. 163 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7441394 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 08:06 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.