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 “Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville” — 17 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:44 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.

The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ....
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1712

L'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la Conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1757

Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, châteaux & autres lieux de plaisance, situés à quinze lieues aux environs de cette ville
Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville · 1762

Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosités : après le décès de feu Monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville, maître des comptes, & membre des Sociétés royale de Londres & de Monpellier
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1766

Half Figure of a Woman
Thomas Blanchet · 1660

Studies of a Woman Wearing a Cap
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1717–18

Drunken Silenus Riding on an Ass
Jacques Sarazin · 17th century

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Peter, Saint Damasus, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Paul; the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the Background
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) · 1566–68

The Rommelpot Player
French (?) · 18th century

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

The Judgment of Solomon
Constantijn Daniel van Renesse · 1649–50

Allegory of Music
Laurent de La Hyre · 1649
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 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 07:44 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.