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. 18 shown for “Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of the Duke de Loubat
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · 20th century

Frederic De Peyster
George Edwin Bissell, born New Preston, CT 1839-died Mount Vernon, NY 1920 · modeled ca. 1875

Relief moulded metal plaque for sewing box
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · ca. 1900

Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia
Artist not stated in the record

The Election of the Duke de Loubat, Member of the Institut de France
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · 20th century

Jean-Victor Moreau
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784
Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1862

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Tobie, I Kind o’ Likes You
Artist not stated in the record · 1903

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)
Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Head of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 777936 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 07:57 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.