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 “John Le Chartier” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tankard (one of a pair)
John Le Chartier · 1699–1700

Phlox paniculata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1859

Tankard (one of a pair)
John Le Chartier · 1699–1700
Jatropha gossypiifolia var. jamaicensis Dehgan & Almira
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1927

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Colubrina verrucosa (Urb.) M.C. Johnst.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1927

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Erithalis odorifera Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1927

Medinet-Habu
John Beasley Greene · 1854

John Le Clair
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Ulva enteromorpha Le Jol.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1893

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825

Robert Le Roy Parker, Harry Longbaugh, and Orlando Camilla Hanks
John Swartz, 1858 - 1937 · 1902

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France
Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Harvey Logan, Robert Le Roy Parker, Harry Longbaugh, and Etta Place
De Young Studio, active 1885 - ? · 1907

Jug with cover
John Chartier · 1711–12

Ambystoma jeffersonianum
Artist not stated in the record

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

The Wild Bunch
John Swartz, 1858 - 1937 · 1900
![[The Great Wave, Sète], by Gustave Le Gray](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP223650.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Great Wave, Sète]
Gustave Le Gray · 1857

Vitis araneosa J. Le Conte
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1924

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Christella serra (Sw.) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1941
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. 2136 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 286537 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 01:20 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.