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 “Woman Dispensing Poison from the Legend of Saint Germain of Paris” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woman Dispensing Poison from the Legend of Saint Germain of Paris
Artist not stated in the record · 1245–47

Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Vision of Saint Germain of Paris
Artist not stated in the record · 1245–47

ART DU BRODEUR
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1770

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

ART DU BRODEUR
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1770

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

St. GERMAIN EN LAYE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1669–1703

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Saint Germain-des-Prés, Paris
Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · ca. 1887

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Le Louvre Colonnade, Facing Saint Germain, Plate 39 of Vues Pittoresques de Principaux édifices de Paris
Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Vue du Chateau de St. Germain en Laye (View of Saint Germain-en-Laye Palace)
Chez Daumont, active 18th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1740-1768

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

LE CHÂTEAU NEUF DE ST GERMAIN EN LAYE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449

Veuë du Chateau neuf de St. Germain en Laye
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1660–1703

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

CHAPELLE DE SAINTE MARGUERITE.
Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740 · 1705-1742

Hagar in the Wilderness
Camille Corot · 1835

St. GERMAIN EN LAYE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century
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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3102074 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 2026-09-07 08:07 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.