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. 14 shown for “Paul Legrand” — 52 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:59 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 Jardin des Plantes, Descriptions et Moeurs des Mammiferes
François Boitard · 1842

Péhriska-Rúhpa (Two Ravens)
Paul Legrand · c. 1840-43

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Feb 1985

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1480–85

Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1985

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1831–34

The Woman in the Waves
Gustave Courbet · 1868

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)
Georges Seurat · 1882–83

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Embroidery; The Artist's Mother
Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Young Woman (La Servante)
Auguste Renoir · ca. 1875

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 133583 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 18:59 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.