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 “William Bouguereau” — 16 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:36 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.

Young Mother Gazing at Her Child
William Bouguereau · 1871

Breton Brother and Sister
William Bouguereau · 1871

The Proposal
William Bouguereau · 1872

Two Sleeping Children
William Bouguereau · n.d.
![[William-Adolphe Bouguereau], by Ferdinand Mulnier](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-14039-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]
Ferdinand Mulnier · 1857–1871

Art and Literature
William Bouguereau · 1882

Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

The Storm
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1880
![[Emmanuel Frémiet], by Edmond Bénard](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP343668.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Emmanuel Frémiet]
Edmond Bénard · 1880s–90s

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)
John Hoppner

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 00:36 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.