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. 12 shown for “Roundel with King Arthur Riding on a Camel (from a Series of the Nine Heroes)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Roundel with King Arthur Riding on a Camel (from a Series of the Nine Heroes)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1510

Camel
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
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. 48 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:53 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.