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 “Etienne-Maurice Falconet” — 28 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase (vase cuir) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1765–70

Figure "La Feuille à l'Envers"
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1760

Project for a Fountain
Etienne-Maurice Falconet, 1716 – 1791 · 1720–30

Seated girl
Etienne-Maurice Falconet · ca. 1788

Figure "Le Sabot Cassé" (The Broken Shoe)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1760

Leda and the Swan
Etienne-Maurice Falconet · 1753 or 1758

The Youthful Vendor
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1757

Psyche ("La Nymphe Falconet")
Sèvres Manufactory · porcelain after 1761, gilt bronze ca. 1775

Cupid ("L'Amour Menaçant")
Sèvres Manufactory · porcelain after 1761, gilt bronze ca. 1775

Cupid ("L'Amour Menaçant")
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1761

Milo of Crotona and the Lion
Etienne-Maurice Falconet · modeled 18th century, cast 20th century

The Toilette of Venus
Etienne-Maurice Falconet · last quarter 18th century

Cup and saucer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1806

La Baigneuse
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758–66

Bather
Etienne-Maurice Falconet · ca. 1770–80
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. 26 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:32 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.