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 “Peter Simon” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:59 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.

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

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

Saint Peter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer
Peter Paul Rubens · 1597

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

The Doctor Dismissing Death
Peter Simon · 1785

Book of Hours
Simon Bening · ca. 1530–35

The Doctor Dismissing Death
Peter Simon · September 15, 1785

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

Hero Fainting in Church (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1)
Peter Simon · first published 1789; reissued 1852

"To you I give myself, for I am yours" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 4)
Peter Simon · September 29, 1792

Hero, Ursula and Beatrice (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1)
Peter Simon · first published 1790; reissued 1852
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. 409 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. 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 08:59 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.