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 “Les Campion Frères, Paris, France” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:45 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.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Saint Anthony
France · ca. 1480–85

Coffer stamped with the arms of Marie Thérèse of Savoy as the Countess of Artois
les frères Riollant · ca. 1773

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

A Peasant Family
Antoine Le Nain · ca. 1640–48

Napoléon III (1808–1873), Emperor of the French
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1873

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Plaque with Saint Peter in Glory
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1185–1200

Brother Philippe's Geese
Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1736

Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

Clock with Father Time
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · 1863

Saint James the Great
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1231
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. 108 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 21:45 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.