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Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Michel Corneille the Elder” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:56 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Allegorical Figures for a Ceiling Decoration, by Michel Corneille the Elder

Allegorical Figures for a Ceiling Decoration

Michel Corneille the Elder · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints After Overdoor Paintings, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Album of Prints After Overdoor Paintings

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737–1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tancred Frees Herminia, from The Story of Tancred and Clorinda, by Michel Corneille the Elder

Tancred Frees Herminia, from The Story of Tancred and Clorinda

Michel Corneille the Elder · 1645–60

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder, by Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676

Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder

Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV, by Michel Corneille the Younger

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV

Michel Corneille the Younger · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Elder's Daughter, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Elder's Daughter

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Suzanna and the Elders

Suzanna and the Elders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Bernard (1651–1739), by Guillaume Coustou the Elder

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)

Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Public domainThe Met
Entombment of Christ, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656

Entombment of Christ

Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1640–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas, by Jean Cousin the Elder

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1543

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Sambucus Canadensis. Common, Sweet, or American Elder, by Edwin Hale Lincoln, born Westminster, MA 1848-died Pittsfield, MA 1938

Sambucus Canadensis. Common, Sweet, or American Elder

Edwin Hale Lincoln, born Westminster, MA 1848-died Pittsfield, MA 1938 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Michel Corneille the Younger

The Assumption of the Virgin

Michel Corneille the Younger

Public domainThe Met
Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child, by Kasebier, Gertrude

Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child

Kasebier, Gertrude · ca 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson and Delilah, by Michel Corneille the Younger

Samson and Delilah

Michel Corneille the Younger · 1660–1708

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of St. Andrew, by Michel Corneille the Younger

The Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Michel Corneille the Younger

Public domainThe Met
Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure Studies for a Judgment Scene, by Michel Corneille the Younger

Figure Studies for a Judgment Scene

Michel Corneille the Younger

Public domainThe Met
Susanna and the Elders

Susanna and the Elders

Artist not stated in the record · 1555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Ceiling (recto and verso), by Michel Corneille the Younger

Studies for a Ceiling (recto and verso)

Michel Corneille the Younger · ca. 1660–80

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 83 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1190803 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 09:56 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.