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. 12 shown for “Guillaume Coustou the Elder” — 19 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)
Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Study for one of the 'Chevaux de Marly'
Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1740

Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling an Allegory of Victory
Daniel Marot the Elder · n.d.

Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538)
North Netherlandish Painter

The Return of the Cattle
Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Hazomanga finial
Sakalava artist · 17th–late 18th century

Still Life with Peaches
Auguste Renoir · 1881

Caricature: An Elderly Couple
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

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

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Lucretia
Philippe Bertrand · 1704 or earlier

The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824
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. 19 matched · 19 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 23:52 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.