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 “Jules-Clément Chaplain” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of Marguerite Simon
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1888

The Artist's Children
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1886

In Honor of Victor Hugo, Novelist
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1885

Mme Jeanne Mathilde Claude
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1887

Portrait of Mme. Sarah Gustave Simon (French, 1858-1925)
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1890

In honor of Prince Emmanuel Bibesco
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 19th century

Madame Jeanne-Mathilde Claude
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1887

Jean Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), French Painter
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1885

To commemorate the gift of his chateau de Chantilly to the nation, by the Duc d'Aumale on his banishment in 1886
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1886

Camille Sée
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1892

Association for the Encouragement of Greek Studies
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 19th century

International Congress of Electricians, at Paris, 1881
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1881
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. 47 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:49 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.