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. 18 shown for “Pierre Le Muet” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:26 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 First Book of Architecture by Andrea Palladio
Pierre Le Muet · 1716

Plan du second Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France
Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Elevation de l’entrée de l’Hostel Tubeuf
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Plan du premier estage du rez de chaussée de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Elevation de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé du Jardin
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Plan du premier Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Marin Le Pigny
Pierre Robinet · 1621

Elevaon de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé de la court
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Face du costé de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Pierre Le Barbier Duplessis
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Tridax procumbens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1939

Portrait of Pierre Jeannin
Artist not stated in the record · 1656

Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A. R. Simões & Staples
Artist not stated in the record

Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1945
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. 2617 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 39637 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 18:26 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.