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 “Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
![Mrs. George H. Gilbert [Anne Jane Hartley]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M229.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Mrs. George H. Gilbert [Anne Jane Hartley]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Fan Mount: Dancers
Edgar Degas · 1879

Augustin Daly's Stock Company
Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · 1884

Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas · 1877

Mary and Ann Hogarth's Shop Card
Artist not stated in the record · 1720-1794

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

Manumission receipt for Vister Campbell for his enlistment in the Union army
Allen E. Forrester, American · 1864

The Dead Christ with Angels
Edouard Manet · 1864
Mrs. William Bingham
Unidentified Artist · 1855

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Jane Addams
George de Forest Brush, 28 Sep 1855 - 24 Apr 1941 · 1906

Portrait of a Horseman
James Seymour

John Gilbert As Sir Peter Teazle
Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Melicope oahuensis (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1964

Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Melicope wawraeana (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1964
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. 58 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. 1188593 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 03:30 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.