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 “Carte du Théatre de la Guerre” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Carte du Théatre de la Guerre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Detail du Plan de la partie du Bosquet du Théatre et de la Grande Salle de verdure qui y correspond
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1770

Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · 1831–32

Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine'
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1852–53

Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divisés en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en général, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664
Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli · 1760

Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine'
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1852–53

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Psilotum nudum (L.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1950

Soap Bubbles
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34
![Partie des Ornées de la Carte Chronologique du Roy faite en 1733 [Part of the Ornamentation of the 1733 Chronology (Old Testament) for the King], pl. 35 in Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26795_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Partie des Ornées de la Carte Chronologique du Roy faite en 1733 [Part of the Ornamentation of the 1733 Chronology (Old Testament) for the King], pl. 35 in Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier · 1785

Codiaeum peltatum P.S. Green
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1950

The Outer Harbor of Brest
Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe · 1773

Odeon Theater, Paris
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Theater of the Republic, Paris
Mennier · 1802–1804

Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre, circa 1740
Padeloup · ca. 1740

Certificate for French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence L. McVey
French Republic, French, founded 1792 · March 2, 1928

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Theatre des Varietés in Paris
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1795
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. 212 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 806473 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 01:13 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.