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 “Arsène Alexandre” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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.

Honoré Daumier, l'homme et l'œuvre : ouvrage orné d'un portrait à l'ea-forte, de deux héliogravures et de 47 illustrations
Arsène Alexandre · 1888

Lantern dedicated to Arsène Alexandre
Henri Guérard · 1875

Lantern dedicated to Arsène Alexandre
Henri Guérard · ca. 1874

Reclining Nude
Auguste Renoir · 1883

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955)
Auguste Renoir · 1888

The Woman in the Waves
Gustave Courbet · 1868

The River
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

The Dance Lesson
Edgar Degas · ca. 1879

The Fair at Bezons
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1733

The Silver Tureen
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30
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. 82 matched · 24 examined · 4 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 2026-08-26 22:58 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.