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 “Charles E. Weir” — 64 records examined, 28 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 Wood Sawyer
Charles E. Weir · 1842

Solidago nemoralis Aiton
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Oct 2024

Fruit
Julian Alden Weir · ca. 1888

Hunter and Dogs
J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · 1912

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45
Paspalum paniculatum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1933

The Factory Village
Julian Alden Weir · 1897

Paronychia patula Shinners
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1960

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/12/67

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/12/67

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

John Ferguson Weir
Julian Alden Weir, 30 Aug 1852 - 8 Dec 1919 · 1890

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Diplacodes haematodes
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1914

A Bashi-Bazouk
Charles Bargue · 1875

Cyperus elegans L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1936

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Eleocharis mutata (L.) Roem. & Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1936

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Annona glabra L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1938

Rockingham “Distin Family Band” garden seat
Charles Coxon · ca. 1849–50

Andropogon bicornis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1932
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. 3844 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1220905 matched · 40 examined · 20 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.