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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 “Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville” — 53 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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

The Louvre, from Port St. Nicolas, Plate 63 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"
Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

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

Marquis De Lafayette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834

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

Marquis De Lafayette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834

Mounted vase
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain early 18th century, mounts ca. 1750

LA PORTE ST. ANTHOINE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1671–1703

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

Design for a Lectern
Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736 · ca. 1732

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

Portrait of Louis Antoine, Duc de Noailles (1651-1729)
Artist not stated in the record · 1710-1720

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

Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1734

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

Elevation of a Temporary Trumphal Arch
Charles-André Tramblin, French, active mid-18th century · ca. 1750

Half Figure of a Woman
Thomas Blanchet · 1660

Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche
Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736 · ca. 1732

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

Gate to the Temple of Hymen, Pavilion Erected in the Place Dauphin, Paris, France
Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776 · 1745

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté
Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

Allegory of Music
Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

Pompe funèbre de Marie Thérèse d’Espagne Dauphine de France, en l’église de l’abbaye royale de St. Denis le V septembre M.D.CCXLVI
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1756
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 8434 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 10:52 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.