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 Watteau, French, 1684–1721” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.

Mezzetin
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Seated Woman
Antoine Watteau · 1716–17

The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720

Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils
Antoine Watteau · 1710?–?1720

November and December (part of a set illustrating the months of the year)
Antoine Watteau · second quarter 18th century

January and February (part of a set illustrating the months of the year)
Antoine Watteau · second quarter 18th century

Landscape with a Country House
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1714

Landscape with a Cottage and Well
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1714

Standing man with his right hand resting on a basin, shown in three-quarters view with his head turned toward the left, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de Modes)
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1710

Man walking and carrying a cane in his right hand, shown in three-quarters view with his head turned away from the viewer, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de Modes)
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1710

The Four Seasons
Antoine Watteau · second quarter 18th century

Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I
Antoine Watteau · 1726
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. 142 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:00 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.