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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. 24 shown for “Charles Rossi, R.A.” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:46 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
King Edward I (1239–1307) and Queen Eleanor (1241–1290), by Charles Rossi, R.A.

King Edward I (1239–1307) and Queen Eleanor (1241–1290)

Charles Rossi, R.A. · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Amsonia tenuifolia (Raf.) R.A. Harper

Amsonia tenuifolia (Raf.) R.A. Harper

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/7/97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 1927 or 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree, by Thomas Toft

Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree

Thomas Toft · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 1927 or 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

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

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Thalictrum dioicum L.

Thalictrum dioicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus brainerdii Sarg.

Crataegus brainerdii Sarg.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591), by Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)

Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591)

Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Amsonia tenuifolia (Raf.) R.A. Harper

Amsonia tenuifolia (Raf.) R.A. Harper

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Erysimum capitatum subsp. argillosum (Greene) R.A. Price comb. nov. ined.

Erysimum capitatum subsp. argillosum (Greene) R.A. Price comb. nov. ined.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bear bottle (one of a pair)

Bear bottle (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bear bottle (one of a pair)

Bear bottle (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Tricleocarpa fragilis (L.) Huisman & R.A. Towns.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 2837 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 133309 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-02 19:46 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.