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 “Edouard Detaille” — 56 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gendarmes d'Ordonnance
Edouard Detaille · 1894

Tompette de chasseur a cheval
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

A Dragoon on Horseback
Edouard Detaille · 1876

Un Uhlan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874

The Defense of Champigny
Edouard Detaille · 1879

Office Hongrois
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

A Standing Grenadier of the Municipal Guard
Edouard Detaille · 1891
!["Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armide], by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-4C8A71A30F762-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armide]
Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1854

Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis)
Edouard Detaille · 1868

Edouard Blacque Bey
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

French Cuirassier
Edouard Detaille · 1872

Edouard Blacque Bey
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis)
Edouard Detaille · 1868

Edouard Blacque Bey
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Cuirassier
Edouard Detaille · 1872

C-Bass
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
![[Édouard Detaille], by Walery Frères](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-053.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Édouard Detaille]
Walery Frères · 1870s

Edouard Blacque Bey and others
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Arrest of an Ambulance Corps
George Barrie · 1881

Edgar Allan Poe
Edouard Manet, 1832 - 1883 · c. 1875

The Dream of the Soldier
Edouard Detaille · 1889

Untitled (Female Head)
Edouard Fortini, Italian, b. Florence, 1862 · (c. 1890-1920)

The Dispatch-Bearer
Giovanni Boldini · ?1879

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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. 5657 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 06:36 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.