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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 “Decoration de la Salle de Spectacle” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:24 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.
Decoration de la salle de spectacle construite a Versailles pour la representation de la Princesse de Navarre, by Charles Nicolas Cochin II

Decoration de la salle de spectacle construite a Versailles pour la representation de la Princesse de Navarre

Charles Nicolas Cochin II · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Decoration de la Salle de Spectacle

Decoration de la Salle de Spectacle

Artist not stated in the record · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV., by Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754

Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV.

Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Foyer Vault in the Salle de Spectacle at the Palais des Tuileries, plate 56, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Design for a Foyer Vault in the Salle de Spectacle at the Palais des Tuileries, plate 56, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Le Salle de Spectacle, Bordeaux

Le Salle de Spectacle, Bordeaux

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Magdalen, by Georges de La Tour

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Plan pour la Décoration d'une Salle de Bal, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Plan pour la Décoration d'une Salle de Bal

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Façade de la Salle de Concert, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Façade de la Salle de Concert

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Décoration Dévelopée de l'interieur de la Salle à Manger., by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Décoration Dévelopée de l'interieur de la Salle à Manger.

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Façade pour la Salle de Bal, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Façade pour la Salle de Bal

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Plan des Salles Publiques, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Plan des Salles Publiques

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier with Scabbard, by Gasparo Mola

Rapier with Scabbard

Gasparo Mola · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Poële de la Salle à Manger, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Poële de la Salle à Manger

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory decorative plaque

Ivory decorative plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panelling of the Assembly Room in Palais Bourbon, by Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742

Panelling of the Assembly Room in Palais Bourbon

Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742 · ca. 1727

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. 2476 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 815139 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-02 15:24 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.