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. 24 shown for “Michel Eugène Chevreul” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commemorating the 100th Birthday of M. Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889), French Chemist and Member of the Academy of Sciences
Louis-Oscar Roty · 1886

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'
Artist not stated in the record

De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi
Michel Eugène Chevreul · 1839

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'
Artist not stated in the record

Des Couleurs et de leurs Applications aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide de Cercles Chromatiques
Michel Eugène Chevreul · 1864

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'
Artist not stated in the record

Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)
Auguste Renoir · 1877

1c Thomas Jefferson counterfeit postal card
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

30c Alexander Hamilton stamped envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1894

Basket of Flowers
Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Michel Fokine
Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · 1923

The Youth of France to M. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Member of the Academy of Sciences, on attaining his Century
Louis-Oscar Roty · 1886

Jean Michel Fortier
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804
![[Fontainebleau Forest], by Eugène Cuvelier](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT1170.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Fontainebleau Forest]
Eugène Cuvelier · early 1860s

Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait
Louis Michel Eilshemius, 4 Feb 1864 - 29 Dec 1941 · 1915

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Col. Michel Fortier II
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Louis Michel Eilshemius
Joseph Stella, 13 Jun 1877 - 5 Nov 1946 · 1938

Arabs Crossing a Ford
Eugène Fromentin · 1873

Col. Michel Fortier II
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847)
Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Michel Angelique Brouard
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809
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. 143 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. 15324 matched · 40 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 17:49 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.