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 “Armchair (fauteuil)” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
Georges Jacob · 1788

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Unknown · ca. 1890

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Jacques Gondouin · 1779
![Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet [et] Profil du Fauteuil en Cabriolet, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-BCB6ECA4D5722-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet [et] Profil du Fauteuil en Cabriolet
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Armchair
Adam Hains · 1792–97
![Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet, Gondole ou Fauteuil de Bureau, [et] Profil du Feuteuil en Cabriolet, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1A6B825AF3B92-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet, Gondole ou Fauteuil de Bureau, [et] Profil du Feuteuil en Cabriolet
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1710

Fauteuil Antique avec Ornement
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

Armchair
Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Bergere carrée et Fauteuil a la Reine carré
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Armchair
Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Armchair
Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Fauteuil Siamois, "Collection de Sieges," no. 60, in La Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)
Désiré Guilmard, French, 1810–1885 · 1839–85

Armchair (fauteuil)
Nicolas Heurtaut · 18th century

Dessin de Fauteuils Antiques, et Nouveaux
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

Armchair (fauteuil)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Menuiserie du Fauteuil A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Armchair (fauteuil)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Regence style caned fauteuil
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Armchair (fauteuil)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Armchair (fauteuil)
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
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. 50 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. 325 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-29 02:37 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.