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 “Jean Urbain Guérin” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 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 a Woman
Jean Urbain Guérin · ca. 1815

Marquis De Lafayette
Gabriel Fiesinger, 1722 - 1807 · 1790

Alexandre Théodore Victor (1760–1829), Comte de Lameth
Jean Urbain Guérin · ca. 1789–90

Carex bigelowii Torr. ex Schwein. subsp. bigelowii
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1929 to 5 Jul 1929

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
French Painter

Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1980

Henriette Sontag (1806–1854)
Franz Napoleon Heigel · ca. 1835

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1996

The Stolen Kiss
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1996

The Burial of Atala
Jean-Baptiste-Raphael-Urbain Massard · 1822

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1996

Léon Pallière (1787–1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome
Jean Alaux · 1817

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1996

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1996

Snuffbox
Jean-Paul Guerin · 1800–1883

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1996

Relation de L'Arrivée du Roi au Havre-de-Grace le 19 Septembre 1749 et les fêtes qu se sont données a cette occasion
Jean-Baptiste Descampes · 1753

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1996

Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1996

The Dead Christ with Angels
Edouard Manet · 1864

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1996
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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 18712 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-06 02:06 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.