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 “Anonymous, French” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Samson and the Lion, from "The Story of Samson"
Anonymous, French, 16th century · ca. 1560–80

Album of Prints: Berlines by Janel and Two Other Coaches
Janel, French, active 18th century · 1760-1790

The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776
Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1776

Album of Prints from Various Series Published by Jean Mariette
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1686-1742

La Destruction de la Statue Royale à Nouvelle Yorck–Die Zerstörung der Königlichen Bild Säule zu Neu Yorck (Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York)
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Réprésentation du feu terrible à nouvelle Yorck, que les Américains allumé pendant la nuit du 19. septembre 1776 (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776)
Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1778

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1803
![L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York], by Anonymous, French, 18th century](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-44758-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

The Present State of Great Britain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Trompe de chasse "Dauphine"
Cretien workshop, Paris (c.1690 – post 1737) · ca. 1700

Susanne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Poster for a performance by Henri Huerta
Anonymous · 1871

Les Losanges
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1795–1810

Décor Fleurs et Bois Rustiques.
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Ecouen Facades Dans la Court
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Ecce Homo
Anonymous, French

Office Hongrois
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Theatrical Divertissement at an Evening Party
Anonymous, French · 18th century

The Dispatch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1915

Study of a Male Nude
Anonymous, French · 18th century

La Triple Y Vresse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775-1760

Powder flask
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Portrait
Artist not stated in the record · 1867
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. 2898 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. 82731 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-29 12:29 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.