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Images / art

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 “Charles Nicolas Cochin I” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:37 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
The Washerwoman, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

The Washerwoman

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Pomone, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Triomphe de Pomone

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Graces, Fable VIII in "Fables Nouvelles", by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

The Graces, Fable VIII in "Fables Nouvelles"

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1719

Public domainThe Met
Decoration du Bal Paré Donne Par Le Roy

Decoration du Bal Paré Donne Par Le Roy

Artist not stated in the record · 1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo, Mercury, and the Shepherdesses, Fable X in "Fables Nouvelles", by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

Apollo, Mercury, and the Shepherdesses, Fable X in "Fables Nouvelles"

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1719

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790

Print

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of David, from a fan by Jacques Callot, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

The Triumph of David, from a fan by Jacques Callot

Charles Nicolas Cochin I

Public domainThe Met
Escutcheon, from "Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouche", by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Escutcheon, from "Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouche"

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · ca. 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An accident while traveling, a kneeling man fixing a broken saddle, a horse pissing at the left, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

An accident while traveling, a kneeling man fixing a broken saddle, a horse pissing at the left

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche

Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story that Stops Time (L'Histoire qui arrête le temps), by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

The Story that Stops Time (L'Histoire qui arrête le temps)

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1708–54

Public domainThe Met
L'HISTOIRE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

L'HISTOIRE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Little Girl with Cherries, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

Little Girl with Cherries

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1738

Public domainThe Met
Les Fruits de L'Automne

Les Fruits de L'Automne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735-1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Fontaine, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

La Fontaine

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Pomone

Triomphe de Pomone

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Soldier, by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

The Young Soldier

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · ca. 1738

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles, on the Occasion of the Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain (Bal masqué donné par le roi, dans la grande galerie de Versailles, pour le mariage de Dauphin, 1745), by Charles Nicolas Cochin I

Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles, on the Occasion of the Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain (Bal masqué donné par le roi, dans la grande galerie de Versailles, pour le mariage de Dauphin, 1745)

Charles Nicolas Cochin I · 1764, reprinted ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints After Overdoor Paintings, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Album of Prints After Overdoor Paintings

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737–1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Washerwoman, by Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

The Washerwoman

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1752–58

Public domainThe Met
LA SCULPTURE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA SCULPTURE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le sacre de Louis XV, roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII, by Pierre Dulin

Le sacre de Louis XV, roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII

Pierre Dulin · 1723

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche, by Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736

Design for a Long-Case Clock in a Niche

Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736 · ca. 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 396 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. 301898 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 2026-09-01 15:37 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.