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. 22 shown for “Edmond Bacot” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint-Maclou, Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Edmond Méance
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Château de Martainville
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Edmond Paillet
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Vue de l'Odon
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Louis Edmond Fortier
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Tourelle du Palais de Justice, Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Edmond Butler
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Abside de Saint-Pierre, Caen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Giraffe
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851

Abbaye aux Dames et Hospice, Caen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Edmond Charles Clinton Genet
John Elliott, born Lincolnshire, England 1859-died Charleston, SC 1925 · ca. 1917-1925

Portail de Saint-Ouen, Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

William Horner and William Gibson
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Fragment du Palais de Justice, Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1975

Rue des Petits Murs, Caen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1979

Vue générale de Saint-Ouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1979

Saint-Georges de Boscherville, près Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen
Edmond Bacot · 1852–54
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. 28 matched · 24 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. 437 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 01:20 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.