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 “Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu” — 59 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu · ca. 1820–30

Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc'h
Elizabeth Nourse, born Mount Healthy, OH 1859-died Paris, France 1938 · ca. 1901

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Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu · ca. 1820–40

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

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Firm of Esquivillon Frères et De Choudens · ca. 1800–1830

L'arrivée des Lettres et des Gournaux
Lami-Denozan Libraire, French, active 19th c. · ca. 1830

Watch with calendar
Firm of Bordier Frères · ca. 1780–90

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté
Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

Catalogue of Ironwork by the firm J. J. Ducel Fils, bound together with "Tarif des Poids et Prix des Articles en Forte de Fer de J. J. Ducel Maitre de Forges
Eudes · ca. 1830–40

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–85

Clock with Father Time
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · 1863

Cupid and Psyche
Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1790

Cows Crossing a Ford
Jules Dupré · 1836

Wallpaper Invoice for the firm of Arthur et Robert
Arthur & Robert · 1793

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Alfred Sisley · 1872

Don Ouixote
Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · 1785

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Le tempe de l'amour
Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1785

The Japanese Robe
Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Fragments
DuBois Pere et Freres, late 18th century · ca. 1785

Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1851

Le temple de l'amour
Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1785

Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–85
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 6 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. 2936259 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 01:13 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.