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 “Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville” — 49 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:27 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 Dispatch-Bearer
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville · 1880

Design for embroidery or tapestry
Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · 1875–80

A Cavalryman
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville · 1884

Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry
Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · ca. 1880

The Last Cartridges, from "L'Univers Illustré"
Louis Paul Pierre Dumont · June 21, 1873

Prunus depressa Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1941

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Anthoxanthum nitens (G.H. Weber) R.T.A. Schouten & Veldkamp
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1941

Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755)
Maurice Quentin de La Tour · ca. 1750

Mary Pickford
Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1 Sep 1868 - 6 Jan 1946 · 1920

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Hypericum ellipticum Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1955

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Aconitum napellus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1941

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Subularia aquatica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1953

La Colombe et Le Tigre. Ma collection de photographies de la Comtesse de Castiglione
Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1860s

Ribes glandulosum Ruiz & Pav.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1942

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Bromus ciliatus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1941

Mosquée de Cordoue and La Giralda et l'Alcazar de Séville
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · [1837]

Carex novae-angliae Schwein.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1941

Wrestlers
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska · ca. 1914

Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1953
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. 230 matched · 24 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. 25 matched · 25 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 2026-09-08 12:27 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.