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 “Thomas Le Mere” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP269377.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson]
Unknown · 1864

Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Le Mere · April 17, 1863

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Le Mere · April 17, 1863

Square vase
Ernest Chaplet · ca. 1889
Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1953

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1959

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1961

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Thomas Le Clear
William Rudolf O'Donovan, born Preston County, VA 1844-died New York City 1920 · 1876

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)
Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851
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. 1176 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 146586 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 2026-08-29 14:21 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.