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 “The Sense of Sight” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Sense of Sight
Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds

The Sense of Sight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Sight
François Boucher · 1720–70

La Veue (Sight) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

Sight
Abraham Bosse · 1635–38

La Vue
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1736-55

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Sense of Sight, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)
Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637 · ca. 1580

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Sense of Sight
Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Sight, from "Senses"
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

A Woodland Road with Travelers
Jan Brueghel the Elder · 1607

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Fleet of Aeneas Arrives in Sight of Italy (Aeneid, Book III)
Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35

A Moorish Smoking Room
Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898 · 1856

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

La Vüe
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Sight (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Canal in Venice
Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century
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. 3027 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. 2983468 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 09:40 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.