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 “Un Vieux Port de la Normandie (An Old Port of Normandy)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:25 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 Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Un Vieux Port de la Normandie (An Old Port of Normandy)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

The Annunciation
Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1644

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 1834

Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun
Alfred Sisley · 1894

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy
Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Galium decolorans Bourg. ex Marés
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1898

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional posé dans un angle lequel est ceintré en S. / et orné d’une arrière-voussure au dessus de la porte / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional aussi posé dans un angle, la porte ouvrante plein ceintre sous une arriere-voussure de Marseille, et la corniche ornée d’un ceintre surbaissé
F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

The Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur · probably ca. 1640
Peep-show, Maison Quiserie de Magasins, pour la Marine du Roy, et une partie du Port de Plimouthe en Angelterre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Dumontia incrassata (O.F. Müller) J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1983

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1877

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Ulothrix zonata (F. Weber & D. Mohr) Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · -- Apr ---- to -- Jul ----

General Letellier on His Deathbed
Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20
Fucus ceranoides
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1983

Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956)
Auguste Renoir · 1879
Cystoclonium purpureum (Huds.) Batters
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1984

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
Codium fragile subsp. tomentosoides
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1983
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3439931 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-06 03:25 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.