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 “Albumen portrait of Charlotte S. Poulton mounted on paper” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:34 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.

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes
Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Portrait of Li Xiangjun
Cui He · dated 1817

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Frank Johnson, Leader of the Brass Band of the 128th Regiment in Saratoga, with his wife, Helen
Auguste Edouart · 1842–44
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. 1386 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 21:34 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.