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 “Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804” — 53 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint John the Evangelist (?)
Pietro Antonio Novelli · before 1755

Grotesque Heads
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750-1775

Design for a Trade Card
Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th century

An Audience Scene
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · ca. 1775

A Seated Slave
Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–1790

Allegorical Figure of a Woman
Pietro Antonio Novelli · ca. 1745–55

Project for Part of a Painted Decoration
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–75

A Venetian Family Portrait Group
Pietro Antonio Novelli · after 1750

Ascension of the Virgin
Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · ca. 1630–40

A Bearded Monk Showing a Portable Altar to a Praying Child, with an Old Woman Kneeling
Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)
Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

Half-Length Study for a Portrait of a Young Man
Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

St. Peter and St. Agatha
Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · 1603–47

Saint Paul the Hermit and Saint Anthony Abbot conversing in a landscape, after Pietro Antonio Novelli
Francesco Novelli · ca. 1784–1836

Sacrifice of Noah
Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · early 17th century

Chained Nude Prisoner, after Pietro Tacca
Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1776

Diana Visiting the Sleeping Endymion
Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Three Arabesque Panel Designs
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1777

Satirical drawing: Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait
Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Dedication
Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800 · 1777

Head of a Man
Pietro Antonio Novelli · n.d.

Daniel in the Lion's Den
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 49697 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 06:29 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.