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. 20 shown for “A Villefranche-sur-Mer (Environs de Carqueiranne)” — 49 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

A Villefranche-sur-Mer (Environs de Carqueiranne)
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears
Auguste Renoir · ca. 1885
Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Laurencia obtusa f. gracilis
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

Vue d'un temple... dédié à Diane from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples
Adélaide Allou · 18th century
Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackh.) Grev.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

Vue des debris des bains de Neron from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples
Adélaide Allou · 18th century
Sporochnus pedunculatus (Huds.) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1938

Young Woman (La Servante)
Auguste Renoir · ca. 1875
Spermatochnus paradoxus
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1938

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Griffithsia phyllamphora
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1938

View of the Surroundings of Regio in Calabria
Joseph Vernet · ca. 1770
Pterosiphonia pennata (C. Agardh) Sauv.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938
Caulacanthus ustulatus (Mert. ex Turner) Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938
Phyllophora crispa
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938
Polysiphonia subulifera
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938
Cladophora prolifera (Roth) Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1938
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 616221 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.