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. 18 shown for “Idylle” — 44 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 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 favorite object of his studies is the collection of Idylles by Madame Deshoulières, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"
J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Idylle
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Side chair (one of a pair)
Josef Danhauser · ca. 1815–20

A Spring Idyl, Illustration for The Book Buyer (III, No. 10, November 1886, p. 443)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1886

Peace, an idyll, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 6, 1871
Honoré Daumier · March 6, 1871

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Traite des negre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Shepherd's Idyll
François Boucher · 1768

Carte-de-visite of an unidentified Union soldier
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1884

The Falcon's Bath
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1415

V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · 1945

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1875

The Wealth of Autumn
Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888 · 1869

Young Girl Seated
Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938 · 1896

Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York
Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1848
The aviator march and two-step by James M. Fulton
Fulton, James M. 1873-1940 · 1908

The Wiley Family
William Williams, born Bristol, England 1727-died Bristol, England 1791 · 1771

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature
Andrew W. Warren, born Coventry, NY 1823-died New York City 1873 · 1859
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 37 matched · 37 examined · 21 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 09:25 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.