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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Isidore Pils
Théodore Ballu · 1872–75

St. Isidor, Rome
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · 1911

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

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1898

Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1911

Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses
Isidore Pils · 1830–75

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1916

Minerva Combating Brute Force
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1911

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

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1902 to 21 Aug 1902

Acolyte with Open Book (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1924

Drapery Study for Soldier (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Festuca picturata G. Pils
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile
Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901 · 1860

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Pil agar
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
Isidore Pils · 19th century

Martes americana abietinoides
Artist not stated in the record · -- Winter ----

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
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.