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 “Henry Meyer” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Henry Meyer · June 1, 1825

Garnet lherzolite
Artist not stated in the record

Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth
Henry Meyer · March 20, 1815

Kimberlite
Artist not stated in the record

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Stephen Decatur
Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · c. 1830-40

Pelerine
Artist not stated in the record · 1872

Alexander I
Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · 1814

Returning Home
Johann Georg Meyer · 19th century

Oliver Hazard Perry
Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · c. 1830-40

Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable
Gustave Courbet · 1857

Folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1802

Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York
Fritz Meyer · 1856

Henry A. Meyer Collection, Album 2, loose material in paper folder
Artist not stated in the record · July 24, 1803

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

St. Domingue to Bordeaux via La Rochelle
Artist not stated in the record · 1767

Samuel Rogers
Sir Thomas Lawrence · August 16, 1822

"Consulat General des Etats Unis de L'Amerique" manuscript endorsement
Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1795

Candelabrum with woman playing guitar (one of a pair)
Aimé Chenavard · 1834–39

Napoleonic Italy album page with folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1813

Candelabrum with woman playing flute (one of a pair)
Aimé Chenavard · 1834–39

Napoleonic Italy album page with folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1808

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Napoleonic Italy album page with folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1801
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. 105 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 124049 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 08:58 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.