Images / art

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 “Sarony” — 53 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:45 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

Oscar Wilde

Napoleon Sarony · 1882

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Advertisement for Sarony's Photographic Studies]

Napoleon Sarony · 1880s

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Oscar Wilde

Napoleon Sarony · 1882

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[George Henry Boughton]

Oliver François Xavier Sarony · 1860s

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[William Powell Frith]

Oliver François Xavier Sarony · 1860s

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1860-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

U. S. Ship North Carolina, 102 Guns

Nathaniel Currier · 1843

Public domainThe Met

Napoleon Sarony gallery reception area

Unidentified Artist · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Constitution and Guerriere Fought August 19th, 1812: The Guerriere had 15 men killed and 63 wounded. The Constitution had 7 men killed and 7 wounded

Nathaniel Currier · 1848

Public domainThe Met

An Oasis in a Buddhist Desert by Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason and Sarony & Major

Colby, Lewis · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes, at the Tabernacle, Broadway, December 24, 1847

Francis D'Avignon · 1848

Public domainThe Met

The Declaration of Independence lithograph by Napoleaon Sarony after John Trumbull

Artist not stated in the record · 1843-1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Washington Irving's Illustrations of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Designed and Etched by F.O.C. Darley for the Members of the American Art Union, 1850

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1849–50

Public domainThe Met

The Lovers

Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Washington Irving's Illustrations for the Legend of Rip Van Winkle, Designed and Etched by F.O.C. Darley

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1848

Public domainThe Met

Married

Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

New-York (Union Square, Looking South)

C. Bachman · 1850

Public domainThe Met

Burns and Highland Mary

Sarony & Major · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

United States Military Academy: Song of the Graduates (sheet music cover)

James McNeill Whistler · 1852

Public domainThe Met

Father's Pride

Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

What was queried

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 1 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. 225 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-10 10:45 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.

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Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.