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. 16 shown for “Léon Bonnat” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Ferdinand De Lesseps
Léon Bonnat, French, born Bayonne, France 1833-died Monchy-St-Eloi, France 1922 · 1915

Leon Bonnat
Victor Peter · 1913

Anna L. R. S. Morton
Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, 20 Jun 1833 - 8 Sep 1922 · 1884

John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893)
Léon Bonnat · 1880
Study for Portrait
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, French, active in Italy, 1833 – 1922 · 1859

Roman Girl at a Fountain
Léon Bonnat · 1875

Levi Parsons Morton
Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, 20 Jun 1833 - 8 Sep 1922 · 1883

Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833–1922), member of the Institute in 1874
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1890

Carmelita Requena
Thomas Eakins · 1869

Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1868–69

Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1887

The Arab Jeweler
Charles Sprague Pearce · ca. 1882

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Three Studies of a Lion
Eugène Delacroix · 1815–63
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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 26607 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:37 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.