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 Perrault” — 54 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Les Contes de Perrault
Charles Perrault · 1864

Surprised by the Snow
Unidentified

Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour, en l'année 1662
Charles Perrault · 1670

Mme. Marie Josephe Louise Perrault Duralde
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Castrorum Prœfectus Americanus, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)
François Chauveau · 1662–70
Bembidion dannieae
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1972 to 24 Aug 1972

Armiger, Ephebus, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)
François Chauveau · 1662–70
Bembidion georgettae
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1966

Stipatores, Equus Ductitius, Agasones, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)
François Chauveau · 1662–70

Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M. Roem.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1946

Labyrinte de Versailles
Isaac de Benserade · 1677

Streptopus lanceolatus (Aiton) Reveal
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

Americanorum Rex, Guisius, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)
François Chauveau · 1662–70

Poa palustris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1946

Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867

Platynus degallieri
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1973

Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir?
Auguste Garneray · 1817

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800-1810

Wall clock (cartel)
Jean-Jacques Fieffé · ca. 1745–49

Charles Willson Peale
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807
![Puss in Boots, an entertaining School-Piece: by Young Slyboots [School piece or Penmanship sheet], by Laurie & Whittle](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-26613-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Puss in Boots, an entertaining School-Piece: by Young Slyboots [School piece or Penmanship sheet]
Laurie & Whittle · November 13, 1802

Charles Willson Peale
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

Vue de la Grande Façade du Vieux Louvre
Jacques Rigaud · originally published 1729, inscribed 1752
Charles Willson Peale
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 127362 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 19:48 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.