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. 14 shown for “Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865” — 16 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Fine Arts
Alexandre Buquet · ca. 1830

Coriolanus and Scipio
Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1825

The Fine Arts
Alexandre Buquet · ca. 1830

Textile
Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1810

Adoration of the Magi
Alfred Buquet · 1856

Fables of Fontaine
Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1830

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Marriage scenes
Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1825

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Vallée de Glenfinlas (Glenfinlas Valley), from "Vues Pittoresques de l'Écosse"
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826

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

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio
Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:17 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.