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. 19 shown for “Tholey, Charles P.” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Rock Ptarmigan
Tholey, Charles P. · ca 1840

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784
Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

George McClellan and Family
Tholey Lithography Company, active c. 1851 - 1898 · 1867

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Washington and Friends After a Days Hunt
Smith, John · 1868

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Charles Lindbergh, Philip Love and Thomas P. Nelson
Unidentified Artist · 1928

Apple Blossoms
Charles-François Daubigny · 1873

Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2000

Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5
Goupil et Cie · 1876–1881

Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2000

A Bashi-Bazouk
Charles Bargue · 1875

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena
P R · 1741
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. 8465 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 657357 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:59 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.