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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-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:24 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64, by Adrien Tournachon

Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64

Adrien Tournachon · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Faradisation du muscle frontal, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Faradisation du muscle frontal

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Icono-photographique. Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine. Fig. 65, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Icono-photographique. Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine. Fig. 65

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 18: Aggression, wickedness, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 18: Aggression, wickedness

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 60: Fright, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 60: Fright

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 83: Lady Macbeth, ferocious cruelty, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 83: Lady Macbeth, ferocious cruelty

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 73: Head of Niobe, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 73: Head of Niobe

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou Analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou Analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 16: Expression of severity, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 16: Expression of severity

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 10: Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 10: Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 27: Expression proportionally more pained, by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 27: Expression proportionally more pained

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Figure 45: Pain and despair., by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 45: Pain and despair.

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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.

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 12:24 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.