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 “Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Card Players in a Drawing Room
Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger · ca. 1756–59

Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling, No. 9 from "Plafons a la Moderne"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Portrait of a Man
Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · 1844

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté
Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

Halt of the Hunt
Carle (Charles André) Vanloo · ca. 1737

Carle Vernet
Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · 1828

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Distribution du Plan de la Retraitte
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1770

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier · 1785

An English Lord
Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · (1833)

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Man of the Dumesnil Family
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs
Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850 · 18th–early 19th century

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

April from a set of The Months of Lucas
Master of the Months of Lucas · designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37

Trade card of Louis Roupert, master goldsmith of Metz
Pierre Rabon, French, 1619 - 1684 · 1680

October from a set of The Months of Lucas
Master of the Months of Lucas · designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37

Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé
Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752 · 1745

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV
Michel Corneille the Younger · n.d.

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
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. 88 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. 1221756 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.