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 “Régine Carey” — 42 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Monuments of Paris
Régine Carey · ca. 1806

Lathraea squamaria L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Monuments of Paris
Régine Carey · ca. 1806

Ursus americanus
Artist not stated in the record

Elephantopus mollis Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 1913

Buchingera axillaris Boiss. & Hohen.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1943

Polylepis sericea Wedd.
Artist not stated in the record · 1923

Astragalus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1881

Galium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1868

Pseudognaphalium rhodarum (S.F. Blake) Anderb.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1891

Dicranum flagellare Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1901

Luzula racemosa Desv.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1917 to 15 Feb 1917

Pavetta ternifolia Hook. f. ex Oliv.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/3/59

Baccharis trinervis (Lam.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1949
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 866 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-06 02:09 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.