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, 19th century” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Design for an Overmantel or Door with a Variant
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

A French Officer of the Early 19th Century
Paul Delaroche, French, 1797 - 1856 · before 1856

Botanical Study
Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1820

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

Flower Study
Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1820

Cup and Saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · late 19th century

Italian Landscape
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Première au Rendez-vous
Anonymous, French, 19th century

Portrait
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Gate Design
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Botanical Studies
Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1820

PREMIER LIVRE DE NOUVEAUX DESSEINS, DE SERRURERIES. Inventé et gravé Par Babel
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Design for a Candlestick
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Nouveaux Desseins de Balcons
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Design for a Chandelier
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Nouveaux Desseins de Balcons
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Design for a Lamp
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Nouveaux desseins de Balcons
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Ceiling and wall design
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Grille pour la decoration des Jardins
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1890–1910

Design for a Candelabra
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Album of Tableware Designs
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
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. 11555 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. 117528 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 20:00 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.