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 “Leon-Noel” — 16 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Eugénie, Impératrice des Français
Léon Alphonse Noël · 1854

Queen Victoria
Leon-Noel · 1855

Eugénie, Empress of the French (Eugénie, Impératrice des Français)
Léon Alphonse Noël · after 1854

Stephen Girard
Alphonse Leon Noel, 1807 - 1884 · c. 1846

Eglise d'Auvers
Edouard Baldus · 1855, printed 1855–57

Chrysocharis perditor
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1965 to May 1965

Métabus
Louis Jean Désiré Delaistre · ca. 1830

Paying the Hostess
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1670

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
![[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
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6 matched · 6 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 18:33 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.