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 “Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:44 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.

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Merchant of Plaster Figures
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · ca. 1822

A Pinch of Snuff Behind the Drop
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · ca. 1827

The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey)
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1818

A Dismounted Horse Reined in by an Officer
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1770–1836

Cossacks on Horseback Hunting Deer
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1821–36

The Fool Who Sells Wisdom
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · ca. 1818

Mamluk on Horseback
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · first half 19th century

François Delpech's Print Shop
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · ca. 1820

Standing Warrior
Bartolomeo Pinelli · n.d.

Stag Hunt
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · ca. 1840

Portrait of a "Mamelouk"
Horace Vernet · 1810
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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 6 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 2026-08-26 20:44 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.