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 “Robert Cooper” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chocolate pot
Robert Cooper · 1705–6

Charles IV and Louisa Maria
Robert Cooper, active early 19th century · 1811

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · early 19th century

Ferdinand VII and Louisa Maria
Robert Cooper, active early 19th century · 1811

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · early 19th century

The Supreme Court of the United States
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1867

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · early 19th century

Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · February 1809

L'Odorat
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Le Touché
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Monument of Mary, Queen of Scots, from "The History of England"
Robert Cooper · January 1, 1824

La Vüe
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

The Straw Hat (Le Chapeau de Paille), Portrait of Susanna Lunden
Robert Cooper · 1823

L'Ouie
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

The Return of the Cattle
Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Le Gout
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

The Portico of a Country Mansion
Hubert Robert · 1773

Les Cinq Sens de Nature Inventé & Dessiné par Jean Pillement
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · early 19th century

Seconds Voyageurs Aeriens ou Experience de Mm. Charles et Robert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

Pair of urns and pedestals
Robert Adam · ca. 1780 with latter additions

Portrait of Robert Burns
Artist not stated in the record · 1819
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. 254 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 214586 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 2026-09-06 01:45 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.