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. 19 shown for “Monet, jewelers” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The House with the Cracked Walls
Paul Cézanne · 1892–94

Bouquet holder, vase shape, pin
Monet, jewelers · ca.1830-1920

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Petasites albus (L.) Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1965

Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue
Edouard Manet · 1880

Petasites albus (L.) Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1965

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Pedicularis rosea Wulfen
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1880

The Letter
Camille Corot · ca. 1865

Teucrium gracile Barbey & Fors.-Major
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1935

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Hybanthus linearifolius (Vahl) Urb.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1924

The Siesta
Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

Marshall Jewell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1874

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Beaulieu: The Bay of Fourmis
Eugène Boudin · 1892

Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
Paul Cézanne · 1882–85

Olive Trees
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1458 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 13:22 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.