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. 14 shown for “Augustin Pajou” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love
Augustin Pajou · 1799

Design for a Sculpture in a Niche
Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809 · 1780

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)
Augustin Pajou · 1789

Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle
Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809 · 1761

Head of a Bearded Elder
Augustin Pajou · 1768

Ceres
Augustin Pajou · ca. 1768–70

Torchère figure (one of a pair)
Augustin Pajou · 19th century

Torchère figure (one of a pair)
Augustin Pajou · 19th century

Pedestal
Augustin Pajou · 19th century

Augustin Pajou (1730–1809)
Philippe Laurent Roland · 1803–9

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1784

The Triumph of Love over Time
Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1780–90

Le Grand Pénitencier
Augustin Pajou · n.d.

Two Roman Soldiers
Augustin Pajou · ca. 1752–56
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. 35 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. 7298 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:19 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.