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. 21 shown for “Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907” — 28 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
William Maxwell Evarts
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1872–73; carved 1874

Dunrobin
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1884

Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884, carved by 1888

Margaretta Willoughby Pierrepont
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1874

Francis Davis Millet
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1879

Diana
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1889

Louise Adele Dickerson Gould
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1894

Dr. Henry Shiff
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1880

United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1906–7, gold coin 1910

Hodgkins Committee Award Medal
Artist not stated in the record · 1895

United States Twenty-dollar Gold Piece
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1905–7, gold coin 1911

The Puritan
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · ca. 1899

World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–94, cast by 1896

Adams Memorial
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1886-1891, cast 1969

World’s Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–94; cast by 1896

Kenyon Cox
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1889

Louise Adele Dickerson Gould
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1893, carved 1894

Apollo with Cupids
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1880-1882

Head of Victory
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1902

Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1883, remodeled 1905

Francis Davis Millet
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1879
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 · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 17:56 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.