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 “C. C., French, active 19th c.” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster Strip
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Design for a Frame
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

Teapot
I. C. · 1699–1700

Design for the Decoration of Mouldings
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Six Designs for Ogees
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)
C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86

Design for the Decoration of a Frieze
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Eight Designs for Decorated Mouldings
C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles
A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · August 1858

Serpent
C. Baudouin · ca. 1820

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun
J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

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

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

Diana Hunting and Proserpina in the Underworld
Master I. D. C. · probably early 17th century

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882
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. 20859 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1075914 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 2026-08-31 20:01 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.