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 “Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Portrait
Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · 1902–07

The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720

Vase
Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · ca. 1902

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Vase
Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · 1902–07

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Vase
Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · 1902–07

Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1767–69

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783 · 1707–83

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Panel Designs of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

William McKinley
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1905

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

William Thomas Sampson
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

George Henry Thomas
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

George Gordon Meade
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

William T. Sherman
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Robert E. Lee
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1912
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. 53 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 58 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 07:58 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.