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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. 22 shown for “Firm of D. Bachelard et Fils” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:25 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.
Watch, by Firm of D. Bachelard et Fils

Watch

Firm of D. Bachelard et Fils · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Oeuvres de François de Cuvilliés, fils, Ecole d'architecture Bavaroise, Suite 1-20; 4th Recueil (of François de Cuvilliés, pere et fils; Vue Perspectives; Recueil de Ponts Anciene et Moderne; Nouveau Recuil de Ponts Modern, by François de Cuvilliés, fils

Oeuvres de François de Cuvilliés, fils, Ecole d'architecture Bavaroise, Suite 1-20; 4th Recueil (of François de Cuvilliés, pere et fils; Vue Perspectives; Recueil de Ponts Anciene et Moderne; Nouveau Recuil de Ponts Modern

François de Cuvilliés, fils · 1768–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of D. Bachelard et Fils

Watch

Firm of D. Bachelard et Fils · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
The Four Seasons, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

The Four Seasons

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1818–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

Watch

Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: New Book of Vases by Voisin Fils, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Album of Prints: New Book of Vases by Voisin Fils

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1786-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Oeuvre de Boucher fils, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Oeuvre de Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Sandoz, Ami, et Fils

Watch

Firm of Sandoz, Ami, et Fils · 1840–55

Public domainThe Met
Chef de piece

Chef de piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

Watch

Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils · ca. 1815–35

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Tome 3 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Album of Prints: Tome 3 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

Watch

Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils · ca. 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Tome 2 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Album of Prints: Tome 2 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

Watch

Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils · ca. 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Tome 1 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Album of Prints: Tome 1 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Élévation Géometralle d’une Décoration pour un feu d’artifice qui devait être exécuté de reliéf a Nimphembourg, dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres Respectueux Serviteur et sujet, F. de Cuvillies fils, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Élévation Géometralle d’une Décoration pour un feu d’artifice qui devait être exécuté de reliéf a Nimphembourg, dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres Respectueux Serviteur et sujet, F. de Cuvillies fils

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mémoires du Comte de Grammont : histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous Charles II / par Antoine Hamilton ; préface et notes par Benjamin Pifteau, by Count Anthony Hamilton

Mémoires du Comte de Grammont : histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous Charles II / par Antoine Hamilton ; préface et notes par Benjamin Pifteau

Count Anthony Hamilton · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
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. 550 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3387582 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 15:25 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.