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Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
William Maxwell Evarts, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

William Maxwell Evarts

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1872–73; carved 1874

Public domainThe Met
Dunrobin, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Dunrobin

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884, carved by 1888

Public domainThe Met
Margaretta Willoughby Pierrepont, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Margaretta Willoughby Pierrepont

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francis Davis Millet, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Francis Davis Millet

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Diana, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Diana

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louise Adele Dickerson Gould, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Louise Adele Dickerson Gould

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1894

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Henry Shiff, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Dr. Henry Shiff

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1906–7, gold coin 1910

Public domainThe Met
Hodgkins Committee Award Medal

Hodgkins Committee Award Medal

Artist not stated in the record · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
United States Twenty-dollar Gold Piece, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

United States Twenty-dollar Gold Piece

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1905–7, gold coin 1911

Public domainThe Met
The Puritan, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

The Puritan

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–94, cast by 1896

Public domainThe Met
Adams Memorial, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Adams Memorial

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
World’s Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

World’s Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–94; cast by 1896

Public domainThe Met
Kenyon Cox, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Kenyon Cox

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louise Adele Dickerson Gould, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Louise Adele Dickerson Gould

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1893, carved 1894

Public domainThe Met
Apollo with Cupids, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Apollo with Cupids

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Victory, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Head of Victory

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1883, remodeled 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francis Davis Millet, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Francis Davis Millet

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.