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 “Thompson Gallery” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:45 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 Calverley], by Thompson Gallery](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-035.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Charles Calverley]
Thompson Gallery · 1864–66

George Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799
![[Elliott and Palmer ?], by Thompson Gallery](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-069.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Elliott and Palmer ?]
Thompson Gallery · 1864–66

Thomas Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

Alfred Thompson Gobert
Louis-Rémy Robert · 1849–55

Benjamin Thompson
Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824? · 1798

Spring
Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Waddy Thompson
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1842

Satyr, British Museum
Stephen Thompson · 1869–72

James Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

Summer Flowers
Jerome B. Thompson · 1859

P. Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

French Machinery
Charles Thurston Thompson · 1855

Captain Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Og. Thompson
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Davida Johnson Clark
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1886

Philip Rootes Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Thomas Weston Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

Standing Male Ruler (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

George Thompson
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther
François Duquesnoy · 1st–3rd century CE

George Thompson
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 270 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 72720 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 11:45 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.