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 “Caroline F. Grandjean, French” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Caroline F. Grandjean, French · 1819

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

Wibelia denticulata (Burm. f.) M. Kato & Tsutsumi
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1922

The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy
Jean Le Noir · before 1349

Penstemon sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

Settee (canapé) (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Penstemon wilcoxii Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Mimulus guttatus DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Lonicera sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1913

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Epilobium hornemannii Rchb. subsp. hornemannii
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1913

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Lonicera involucrata (Richardson) Banks ex Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1913

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Veronica americana Schwein. ex Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1913

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Synthyris missurica (Raf.) Pennell
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1913

Odalisque in Grisaille
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1824–34

Penstemon montanus var. idahoensis (D.D. Keck) Cronquist
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1912

Four upholstery panels for a settee
Beauvais · 1754–56

Viola praemorsa subsp. linguifolia (Nutt.) M.S. Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1913
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 732540 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 2026-09-04 05:06 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.