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 “Chef de piece” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armorial tazza
Italian · 1499–1514

chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1782–99

Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764)
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1748–51

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–90

Saint Benedict
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Chef de piece
Louis Bire et Verdonnet · 1790–99

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–85

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1786

Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1813

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Le Jardin des Plantes
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · 1802–1818
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. 3380 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. 636832 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 17:23 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.