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. 12 shown for “Jean-Jacques Barre” — 20 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas · 1877

Medallion
Jean-Jacques Barre · 1833

Commemoration of the visit of Louis-Philippe, Queen Marie-Amélie and the Royal children to the Mint
Jean-Jacques Barre · 1833

Firmin Didot (1764-1836)
Jean-Jacques Barre · ca. 1835

Commemorating the Visit of Louis-Philippe, Queen Marie Amélie, and the Royal Children to the Mint, November 8, 1833
Jean-Jacques Barre · 1833

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

Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

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

The Drinkers
Honoré Daumier · by 1861

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
![[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP289779.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]
Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Bathers Under a Bridge (recto); Study after Houdon's Ecorché (verso)
Paul Cézanne · 1894–98 (verso); 1900–06 (recto)
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. 20 matched · 20 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:56 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.