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 Schmidt von Lichtenberg” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory of Art
Peter Schmidt von Lichtenberg · 1609

Minthostachys mollis var. hybrida Schmidt-Leb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1903 to 1934

Saint Peter
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

U.S. Patent Office
A. A. Von Schmidt, active late 19th century · n.d.a.

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Gagea pusilla (F.W. Schmidt) Sweet
Artist not stated in the record · 1848

The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity
Master of the Dominican Effigies · ca. 1325

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

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Ocotea tessmannii O.C. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1985 to 19 Mar 1985

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Myosotis alpestris F.W. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1878

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Rhus marlothii Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1972

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Equisetum hyemale L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1901

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Pisonia laurifolia J.A. Schmidt in Mart.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1833

Saints Bartholomew and Simon
Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

Maerua schinzii Pax
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1972

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Phytolacca thyrsiflora Fenzl ex J.A. Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1916

Saint Ansanus
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Tobias and His Wife
Artist not stated in the record · 1773
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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 59804 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 05:07 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.