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. 17 shown for “Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Osage Warrior
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1805–7

Colonel John Tayloe
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

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

Col. Wm. Duane
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

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

Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

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

Frances Cadwalader Erskine
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

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

Portrait of a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · 1796-1798

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
![[Mezzotint portrait of Louisa DuPonceau, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits], by Jeremiah Gurney](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP116720.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Mezzotint portrait of Louisa DuPonceau, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits]
Jeremiah Gurney · 1862
![[Mezzotint portrait of John C. Huber in Profile, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits], by Jeremiah Gurney](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP116721.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Mezzotint portrait of John C. Huber in Profile, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits]
Jeremiah Gurney · 1862

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

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

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 03:33 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.