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 “Environs de Carqueronne” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta canopic urn
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Environs de Carqueronne
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan
Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Lygodium flexuosum Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1909

Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, châteaux & autres lieux de plaisance, situés à quinze lieues aux environs de cette ville
Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville · 1762

Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

Les curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des environs : avec les antiquitez justes & précises sur chaque sujet, et les adresses pour trouver facilement tout ce que ces lieux renferment d'agréable & d'utile : ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce
Georges Louis Le Rouge · 1742

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

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

Selliguea enervis (Cav.) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1909

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Carex acutiformis Ehrh.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Dalechampia scandens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1894

View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs)
Claude Goyrand · ca. 1644

Tectaria dissecta (G. Forst.) Lellinger
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1909

Environs de Choisy-le-Roi
Charles-François Daubigny · 1843

Gymnanthemum chapelieri (Drake) H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1995

Environs de Rome
Camille Corot · 1866

Unidentified Men at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Environs of Rome
Camille Corot · 1866

Hymenasplenium unilaterale (Lam.) Hayata
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1909
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. 451 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 616187 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 01:45 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.