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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 “Festival Honoring Louis XV of France” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:24 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.
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Festival Honoring Louis XV of France

Festival Honoring Louis XV of France

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
REPRÉSENTATION DE LA CEREMONIE DANS LAQUELLE LES VINS D’HONNEUR FURENT OFFERTS A SA MAJESTÉ LOUIS XV, by Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751

REPRÉSENTATION DE LA CEREMONIE DANS LAQUELLE LES VINS D’HONNEUR FURENT OFFERTS A SA MAJESTÉ LOUIS XV

Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg Pour la Convalescence du Roi ; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de sa Majesté en cette ville, by Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751

Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg Pour la Convalescence du Roi ; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de sa Majesté en cette ville

Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774) as a Child, by Hyacinthe Rigaud

Louis XV (1710–1774) as a Child

Hyacinthe Rigaud · ca. 1716–24

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), by Jean-Baptiste Nini

Louis XV (1710–1774)

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1770

Public domainThe Met
MÉDALLION POUR L’ANNÉE JUBILAIRE, OU CINQUANTIÈME DU RÈGNE DE LOUIS XV., by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

MÉDALLION POUR L’ANNÉE JUBILAIRE, OU CINQUANTIÈME DU RÈGNE DE LOUIS XV.

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Honoring Émile Zola (1840–1902), French Novelist, by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

Honoring Émile Zola (1840–1902), French Novelist

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV, by Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819

Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV

Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias (1707–1724), by Jean Drouart

Armor of Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias (1707–1724)

Jean Drouart · dated 1712

Public domainThe Met
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Louis XV, by Pierre Drevet, 20 Jul 1663 - 1738

Louis XV

Pierre Drevet, 20 Jul 1663 - 1738 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Spandrel Decoration: Fame and Truth Applauding Louis XV, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Spandrel Decoration: Fame and Truth Applauding Louis XV

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

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. 753 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. 2915485 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 23:24 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.