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. 15 shown for “You'll Find Old Dixieland in France” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:58 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 Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

You'll Find Old Dixieland in France
Artist not stated in the record · 1918

Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1767–69
!["In Me A [Match] You'll Always Find", by Sampson Mordan & Company](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-3A7731DED8352-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
"In Me A [Match] You'll Always Find"
Sampson Mordan & Company · 1886–87

The Silver Tureen
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

"In This You'll Find a Match"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

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

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
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. 283 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. 7462173 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:58 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.