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. 13 shown for “Jean Paul Laurens, French, born Fourquevoux, France 1838-died Paris, France 1921” — 25 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920)
Auguste Renoir · 1871

A Soldier
Jean Paul Laurens, French, born Fourquevoux, France 1838-died Paris, France 1921 · n.d.

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

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

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Haystacks: Autumn
Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874
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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 05:07 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.