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 “Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Water color; Tarantella dancers
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; Two peasants dancing to the music of bagpipe and horn
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

Costumes of Sicily
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Costumes of South Calabria
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; On the shore in Chiaja
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

Water color; A vegetable stall
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Water color; Performers of a Commedia dell'Arte
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

Water color; A Neapolitan watermelon shop
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 34084 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 2026-08-27 19:25 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.