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. 16 shown for “Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801” — 44 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Le Général Washington
Noël Le Mire · 1780

Marquis De Lafayette
Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801 · 1781

Themire Crowned by Graces
Sèvres Manufactory · 1777

George Washington
Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801 · 1780

View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757
Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1762

General Washington
Unidentified Artist · after 1780

View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples
Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1761

Hymen and Putto
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Child as Gardener
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Two Dead Children Mourned by a Putto
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

A Globe, Cupid, and Children
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Cupid and a Girl Upon Boulder
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Child Watering a Plant
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Cupid as a Monk Holding a Caduceus
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner"
Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788 · ca. 1799

A Winged Genius Painting a Canvas
Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1753
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 35457 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 16:00 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.