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. 15 shown for “René Le Bègue” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Académie
René Le Bègue · 1902

Carex paniculata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1893
![[Study in Orange], by René Le Bègue](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP259812.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Study in Orange]
René Le Bègue · 1904

The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault
Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598 · 1591
![[Study in Orange], by René Le Bègue](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP259809.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Study in Orange]
René Le Bègue · 1903

Journal de distribution des Fourrages pour l'Ecurie de S. A.sse S.me E.me M.gr le Cardinal de Rohan, precede du tariff des prix des ouvrages relatives à cette partie, extrata des marches faits avec les Ouvriers et Fournisseurs. ***1er Janvier 1782.
Artist not stated in the record · 1782–85

Stipa pennata L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1878

Sacrifice of the first-born
Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598 · 1591

Title Page
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1772–77

Design for a Pendant Trophy
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · ca. 1736

Euclinia longiflora Salisb.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1949
Grewia decipiens Capuron ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1963

Rhynchopyle elongata (Engl.) Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1978

Schismatoglottis trivittata Hallier
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1978
Dilodendron bipinnatum Radlk.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1994
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. 463 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29041 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 20:33 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.