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 “Unknown, French” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Secretary
Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Paradrymonia campostyla (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 2013

Henri-Charles Maniglier
Unknown · ca. 1850
Ozaena maxi
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1984

Musette Baroque
Unknown · ca. 1700

Tachuda forfex
Artist not stated in the record
![[Farmyard Scene], by V. Dijon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT1156.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Farmyard Scene]
V. Dijon · 1850–54

Notoplusia oyapoca
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1918

Serpent
Unknown · ca. 1810

Symphysa glorialis
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

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

Farigia basiviridis
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1911

Female Nude (Danaë)
French · late 17th century

Trumanda fifiana
Artist not stated in the record

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Pseudantiora irregularis
Artist not stated in the record
![[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France], by M. Leon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2F1982-1182-2499_recto.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]
M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

Boriza argentipunctata
Artist not stated in the record

Eiffel Tower
Unknown · 1890s

Misogada nigrifulva
Artist not stated in the record

Palais du Trocadero
Unknown · 1890s

Chadisra flavodiscata
Artist not stated in the record
![[Roman Theater at Nimes], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP149513.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Roman Theater at Nimes]
Unknown · 1867

Odoxia concota
Artist not stated in the record
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. 1138 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 471378 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 15:46 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.