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 “Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:15 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.

Osage Warrior
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1805–7

John Adams
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1800–1801

Portrait of a Man
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1797–98

Alexander Rider (?)
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1808–9

Dyer Sharp Wynkoop
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1800

Jean-Victor Moreau
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · ca. 1806 or 1811

View of the City and Harbour of New York taken from Mount Pitt, the Seat of John R. Livingston, Esq.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1796

Charles Saint-Mémin's American Passport
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · June 30, 1810

The Chief of the Little Osages
Pavel Petrovich Svinin · 1811–ca. 1813

An Osage Warrior
Pavel Petrovich Svinin · 1811–ca. 1813

Two Indians and a White Man in a Canoe
Pavel Petrovich Svinin · 1811–ca. 1813

Mrs. George Clinton (Cornelia Tappen)
Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit · ca. 1797
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. 15 matched · 15 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 2026-09-01 21:15 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.