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Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Isidore Pils” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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.
Portrait of Isidore Pils, by Théodore Ballu

Portrait of Isidore Pils

Théodore Ballu · 1872–75

Public domainThe Met
St. Isidor, Rome, by Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

St. Isidor, Rome

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860", by Isidore Pils

Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860"

Isidore Pils · ca. 1862–67

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated), by Isidore Pils

Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses, by Isidore Pils

Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses

Isidore Pils · 1830–75

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva Combating Brute Force, by Isidore Pils

Minerva Combating Brute Force

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drapery Study for Sainte Clotilde (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for Sainte Clotilde (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1902 to 21 Aug 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acolyte with Open Book (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Acolyte with Open Book (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drapery Study for Soldier (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for Soldier (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca picturata G. Pils

Festuca picturata G. Pils

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile, by Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901

Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile

Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pil agar

Pil agar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Martes americana abietinoides

Martes americana abietinoides

Artist not stated in the record · -- Winter ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling Woman (lower register); verso: Kneeling Woman (lower register); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858), by Isidore Pils

Kneeling Woman (lower register); verso: Kneeling Woman (lower register); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 19th century

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.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 55 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 637 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 08:20 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.