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. 14 shown for “Banjo created for Charles P. Stinson” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Banjo created for Charles P. Stinson
Artist not stated in the record · late19th century

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Banjo Chair
Unidentified · ca. 1875

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena
P R · 1741

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

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

Model of a Basilisk (Cannon) for Emperor Charles V (1500–1558)
Pietro d'Arena · 1523

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
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. 739 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. 1240291 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:45 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.