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 “George Sand” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 04:06 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 George Sand
Luigi Calamatta · 1837

Calamagrostis arenaria (L.) Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1910

Common Thistle (Chardon Commun)
George Sand · 1848

Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1964

Landscape with a Fantastic Castle
George Sand · 1865

Newark Institute Hall!
A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

Lemuel Shaw
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

George Sand (Armandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant), French novelist (1804–1876)
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1830

Maggie Mitchell
Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

Quilt, Star of Bethlehem
First Baptist Church, Perth Amboy · ca. 1845–48

Maggie Mitchell
Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

Side Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1755–90

Euphrasia purpurea var. farlowii (B.L. Rob.) Fernald & Wiegand
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1910

Roger and Angelica Mounted on a Hippogriff (mouth closed, second version)
Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled ca. 1840, cast ca. 1845-1850

Heliotropium curassavicum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1957 to 11 Dec 1957

George Sand's Garden at Nohant
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1842–43

George Washington
Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 · c. 1851

Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847)
Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Paspalum floridanum Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1947

Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)
Nadar · 1854

Ilex decidua Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1938

George Peabody
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Cynanchum laeve (Michx.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1938
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. 249 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 232217 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-05 04:06 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.