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. 13 shown for “Claude Dargent” — 49 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar
Claude Dargent · 1739–40

Claude Amable Brasier
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

The Silver Tureen
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

W.C. Fields
Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · 1938

Dish
Gabrielle Bidard · 1756–58

Hartin Claud
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Capital, Greco-Roman Theater, Miletus (71. Milet. Théatre ant. chap.)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1843
Acalypha arvensis Poepp.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1939

Hexagonal Court, Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek (290. Baalbec. 1843. Cour Hexagone.)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1843

CHARLES GILLOT DE LANGRES
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · ca. 1738

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Woman Playing a Guitar
Simon Vouet · ca. 1618

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10118 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:22 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.