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 “B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, King of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

France, Ace of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun
Louis Perrin · dated 1854

Eugénie, Empress of France, Queen of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Jack of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Jack of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Coin cabinet
Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Three of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Two of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1788

Ace of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Ten of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, Queen of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Eight of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Austria, Ace of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858
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. 1960 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 78808 matched · 40 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 2026-09-02 03:27 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.