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. 15 shown for “C'est un fils, Monsieur!, Plate 17 from "Monument du Costume"” — 44 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory of Music
Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

C'est un fils, Monsieur!, Plate 17 from "Monument du Costume"
Artist not stated in the record · 1776

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Les Précautions (The Precautions), from Le Monument du Costume
Laurent-François Prault, French, 1740–1806 · 1777

Madonna and Child
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · ca. 1508

Plate 22, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Artist not stated in the record · 1732

Élévation Géometralle d’une Décoration pour un feu d’artifice qui devait être exécuté de reliéf a Nimphembourg, dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres Respectueux Serviteur et sujet, F. de Cuvillies fils
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

Plate 5, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

Voila ce que c'est que de ne pas se mettre en règle, Plate 8 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

La côu et la pluie, que c'est romantique! Plate 3 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

Almanac for the Second Half of the Year 1792
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Plate 9, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

Plate 4, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

Plate 7, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

Entrée de Monsieur de Macey (Entrance of the Monsieur de Macey), from Le Combat à la Barrière (Combat at the Barrier)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635 · 1627
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1918179 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 13:59 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.