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 “Telegram to Henry Woodhouse, September 4, 1918” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:09 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.

The Organ Rehearsal
Henry Lerolle · 1885

Table
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740–45

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)
Gustav Klimt · 1899

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Bullfight in a Divided Ring
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Roses and Lilies
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1888

Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)
Edgar Degas · 1873

The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955)
Auguste Renoir · 1888
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. 195 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 01:09 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.