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 “Saint-Jean-du-Désert” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tazza
Saint-Jean-du-Désert · second half 17th century

Carex diandra Schrank
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1935

Dish
Saint-Jean-du-Désert · late 17th century

Acer saccharum Marshall
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935

Six Apostles from Retable
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Gratiola aurea Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Gratiola lutea Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

L'Amour a L'Espagnole
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Hypericum fraseri Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941
![Vignette of the first volume, page 165: Usage des Russes après le Mariage et avant la Noce, from Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 [...], Paris, 1768 by Chappe d'Auteroche, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP828998.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Vignette of the first volume, page 165: Usage des Russes après le Mariage et avant la Noce, from Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 [...], Paris, 1768 by Chappe d'Auteroche
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1767

Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

L'Amour a L'Espagnole
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Rosa carolina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

The Pleasures of the Countryside
Louis Marin Bonnet · mid to late 18th century

Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

Vertumnus Transforms Himself into an Old Woman and Attempts to Woo Pomona, from Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en Latin et en François de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Avec des explications historiques. A Paris Chez Despilly rue saint Jacques à la croix d'or. MDCCLXVII. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi
Jean Jacques Leveau · ca. 1765

Smilax herbacea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

A Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, after Perrier
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1822–26

Carex lupuliformis Sartwell ex Dewey
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

Figures from the Arch of Constantine, after Perrier
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1822–26

Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

Entombment
François Perrier

Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941
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. 493 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. 165 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 01:05 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.