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. 12 shown for “Victor and Auguste Mustel” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Harmonium
Victor and Auguste Mustel · after 1886

Auguste Rodin
Victor Peter · cast after medal of 1887

Portrait of Auguste Rodin
Victor Peter · ca. 1900

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

Souvenir of a Castle in Vosges
Victor Hugo · 1857

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920)
Auguste Renoir · 1871

Bust-Length Study of a Man
François-Auguste Biard · 1848
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. 358 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:12 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.