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. 23 shown for “François Grenier” — 54 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757
Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1762
Agropyron dasyanthum Ledeb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1887
Contopus latirostris
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

She is Beautiful!, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"
François Grenier · 1829
Dendroica adelaidae
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

The Fishermen's Canteen
Jeanne Deny · 1770–97

View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples
Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1761

Sideritis hyssopifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1851

Jeanne, the Redhead, from "The Songs of Béranger"
François-Louis Français · 1829

Arenaria villarsii Balb.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1862

The Old Vagabond, from "The Songs of Béranger"
François-Louis Français · 1829

Erodium macradenum L'Hér.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1868

Passing Young Girls, from "The Songs of Béranger"
Achille Désiré Lefèvre · 1829

Oxalis fontana Bunge
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1858

The Smugglers, from "The Songs of Béranger"
Augustin Burdet · 1829

Viola multicaulis Jord.
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

The Gardener
Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Thlaspi montanum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1859

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Iberis spathulata Bergeret
Artist not stated in the record · 1868

First Steps, after Millet
Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Ranunculus seguieri Vill.
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 8111 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.