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. 16 shown for “Stone, Coquerel et LeGros” — 44 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate
Stone, Coquerel et LeGros · early 19th century
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1878

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911 · c. 1875

Big hot ones! Hot!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 14, 1868
Honoré Daumier · November 14, 1868

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911 · c. 1863-82

The Woman in the Waves
Gustave Courbet · 1868

Leucorrhinia frigida
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Lestes rectangularis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Sympetrum obtrusum
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Lestes disjunctus
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Nehalennia irene
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Enallagma hageni
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Nehalennia irene
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Lestes rectangularis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

Leucorrhinia frigida
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 168436 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.