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 “J. L. Benoist” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France
J. L. Benoist · 1800–1840

Brosimum oligandrum (Benoist) E. M. Gardner & Zerega
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 2004

Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France
J. L. Benoist · 1800–1840

Duguetia calycina Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1987

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Eusiphon geayi Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1984

A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903)
Luigi Palma di Cesnola · 1885–1904

Pourouma bicolor subsp. scobina (Benoist) C.C. Berg & Heusden
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1959

Century Vase
Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Aspidosperma album (Vahl) Benoist ex Pichon
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1988

Spring (one of a set of four)
Edme Bouchardon · probably mid-18th century

Jungia mitis Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 2003

Marie Louise, Empress of the French
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · 1811

Pourouma minor Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 2004

Percussion Longrifle
Joseph Douglass Jr. · ca. 1840–50

Axinaea quitensis Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1995 to 14 Jul 1995

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Psychotria kappleri (Miq.) Müll. Arg. ex Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1960

Parade Helmet à l'Antique
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Salpichroa proboscidea Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1978

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Licania canescens Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1968

Pilgrim vase
Union Porcelain Works · 1876

Duguetia calycina Benoist
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1987
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. 8334 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2234497 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 15:46 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.