Images / art

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 “Carte-de-visite portrait of Eugene Dowe” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:18 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

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.

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Two Male Street Vendors in Profile with Baskets, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Male Street Vendor Standing in Profile Holding Basket, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Woman Standing Wearing Shawl, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Two Male Street Vendors in Profile, one Seated one Standing, Shaking Hands, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Male Street Vendor with Barrel on Head, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

[Studio Portrait: Female and Male Street Vendors with Baskets on Head, Brazil]

Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met

Self-Portrait

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Public domainThe Met

[Carte-de-Visite Album of Prominent Personages]

Mayer & Pierson · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met

Christ Asleep during the Tempest

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met

What was queried

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. 319 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 18:18 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.

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Elsewhere in the catalogue

Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.