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. 16 shown for “Berény, Henri 1871-1932” — 29 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Aeroplane duet Kitty, Donald lyric by Grant Stewart ; music by Henry Berény
Berény, Henri 1871-1932 · 1911

The Dancing Class
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Balance
Riehl · 1874

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

John Muir
Orlando Rouland, 1871 - 27 Jun 1945 · c. 1917 from a 1909 photograph

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Chauve-Souris (program)
Ralph Barton, 14 Aug 1891 - 19 May 1931 · c. 1922

Madonna and Child Enthroned
Carlo Crivelli · 1472

The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Edgar Degas · 1871

A Matador
Edouard Manet · 1866–67

Side table (commode en console)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–60

Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480
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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 18:26 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.