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 “Benard” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:54 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.

Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"
Benard · ca. 1830

Chantier de Bois a Bruler
Victor Adam · 19th century

The Misanthropist (Misantropie)..., from L'imagination, published in Le Charivari, February 10, 1833
Honoré Daumier · February 3, 1833

Hot Cockles
J. J. Grandville · ca. 1834

Penitence
J. J. Grandville · 1834

Blind Man's Buff
J. J. Grandville · ca. 1834

My deceased husband gave me tickets…, from ‘L’Imagination’ published in Le Charivari January 14, 1833
Honoré Daumier · January 14, 1833

Watch
Jehan Bénard · ca. 1600

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (I Kings 19:4-8)
Jean-Baptiste Bénard · 18th century

Wallpaper Panel depicting Winter with male herm
Jacquemart et Bénard · ca. 1808

Wallpaper Panel depicting Spring with female herm
Jacquemart et Bénard · ca. 1808
![[Emmanuel Frémiet], by Edmond Bénard](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP343668.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Emmanuel Frémiet]
Edmond Bénard · 1880s–90s
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. 34 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 13:54 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.