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. 12 shown for “First Lessons in Spoken French for Men in Military Service” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (1752–1825), Brigadier of Engineers
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1804

Tray
Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810
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. 178 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 07:21 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.