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 “Marie Denise Villers” — 24 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:49 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.

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio
Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Caricature of Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin (alias Timon)
Hippolyte Mailly · 1859

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)
Jacques Louis David · 1816
![[Member of the Paris Commune: Marie Grivot, orateur de club, perpétuité], by Ernest Eugène Appert](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-21037-013.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Member of the Paris Commune: Marie Grivot, orateur de club, perpétuité]
Ernest Eugène Appert · 1871
![[Member of the Paris Commune: Marie Chérel, perpétuité, pillage et incendie], by Ernest Eugène Appert](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-21037-005.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Member of the Paris Commune: Marie Chérel, perpétuité, pillage et incendie]
Ernest Eugène Appert · 1871

Teapot
Jesse Kip · 1715–22

Mercury and Battus
Francisque Millet

The Four Deities of Mount Kōya
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
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. 104 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. 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 15:49 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.