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. 22 shown for “G. F. R. Molé” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature
G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Distimake quinquefolius (L.) A. R. Simões & Staples
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1929

Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Scapanulus oweni
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1923

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Teramnus labialis (L. f.) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1929

Landscapes painted for Yuweng
Fan Qi · dated 1673

Teramnus labialis (L. f.) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1929

Pendants and beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Teramnus labialis (L. f.) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1929

Double Horn in F / B-flat
Eduard Kruspe · 1904–19

Scalopus aquaticus machrinus
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1970

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Mogera insularis
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 1969

Louis XIII (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), King of France, as youth
Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Talpa europaea
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Dec 1919

Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)
Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Basset Horn in F
Johann Gottlieb Freyer · ca. 1800

Condylura cristata cristata
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1943

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Elements from a Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1947
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. 985 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2101473 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 19:59 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.