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 “A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 22:00 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 Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles
A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · August 1858

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

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles
Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · ca. 1860

Tea urn
P. B., Paris · 1845

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles
Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · September 1860

Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun
J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles
A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · February 1860

Column Statue of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

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

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1887

Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867

Fashion Plate
August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884
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. 2637 matched · 24 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. 2564623 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 22:00 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.