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 “Seated sheep” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated sheep
Francesco Gallo · 18th–19th century

Three Paneling Designs
François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

Seated sheep
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Seated Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Seated female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

Seated sheep
Nicola Vassalo · second half 18th century

Pastoral Scene
Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

Seated sheep
Nicola Vassalo · second half 18th century

Le Guet du Chien
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

A Seated Shepherd with His Dog and Sheep
Jean-François Millet · 1830–75

Textile
Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765 · 1751–56

Armchair
Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

A Seated Couple in a Landscape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

Roundel with Playing at Quintain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

A Little Shepherdess
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1740–45

The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891

L'Ouie
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1736-55

Seated Shepherdess
Jean-François Millet · 1830–75

Cartoon for Cotton Printing: "Les Quatre Saisons"
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1815–20

America
Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; settee frame second half 19th century

Second Pastoral
Artist not stated in the record · 1769

Three figures seated beneath a tree with a body of water at left and sheep at right
Jean Louis de Marne (called Demarnette) · 1774–1829

Griselda
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1784
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. 53 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 14792 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-05 00:35 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.