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 “Paneling from the parlor of Marmion, King George County, Virginia” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Paneling from the parlor of Marmion, King George County, Virginia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1756

Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 2016

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Asclepias syriaca L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 2015

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Diospyros virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 2015

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

George Washington to Anne Louise DuBarry franked "President U.S." folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · August 1796

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1710

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1710

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Rufus King
Gilbert Stuart, 3 Dec 1755 - 9 Jul 1828 · 1819-20

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo
Master of Charles of Durazzo · 1381–82

Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon.
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Petits Trumeaux de la Galerie d’Apollon
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1710
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4220117 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-04 00:14 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.