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. 17 shown for “Goupil & Co.” — 35 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Mirror
Goupil & Co. · 1890

Robert E. Lee
Paul Giradet, 1821 - 1893 · c. 1865

Charlotte Corday
Goupil & Co. · 1890

Stump Speaking
Louis Adolphe Gautier, French, born Paris, France, active 1847-1876 · 1856

The County Election
John Sartain · 1847

Grace Church
Laurent Deroy, 1797 – 1886 · 1850

Eugénie, Impératrice des Français
Léon Alphonse Noël · 1854

Iroquois
A. H. Baily and Company · after 1881

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II)
Jean-François Millet · 1852

Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1864

The Last Moments of Maximilian
Jean Paul Laurens · 1884

Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn
Hugues Merle · 1872

Ovid among the Scythians
Eugène Delacroix · 1862

Deer in Landscape
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75

Izards in the Glaciers (Pyrenean Chamois)
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75

Elephants by a Pool
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75

Victory: a naked youth standing facing left holding a statue of winged Victory in his right hand
Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874 · 1869
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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:06 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.