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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. 16 shown for “François Debret” — 44 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:42 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.
Exterior Window Bay from the Farnese Palace of Caprarola, Preparatory Study for the 'Oeuvres Complètes de Jacques Barozzi de Vignole', by François Debret

Exterior Window Bay from the Farnese Palace of Caprarola, Preparatory Study for the 'Oeuvres Complètes de Jacques Barozzi de Vignole'

François Debret · 1815–23

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs for Sculpted Trophies by François Roumier, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Album of Prints: Designs for Sculpted Trophies by François Roumier

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotto from the Gardens of the Farnese Palace at Caprarola, Preparatory Study for the 'Oeuvres Complètes de Jacques Barozzi de Vignole', by François Debret

Grotto from the Gardens of the Farnese Palace at Caprarola, Preparatory Study for the 'Oeuvres Complètes de Jacques Barozzi de Vignole'

François Debret · 1815–23

Public domainThe Met
Jean François Merieult, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean François Merieult

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

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
Crito, by Jacques Louis David

Crito

Jacques Louis David · ca. 1786–87

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

Album of Prints: Second Series of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Elementary Album of Architecture by Jean-François de Neufforge, Vol. 8 and a Supplement, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Album of Prints: Elementary Album of Architecture by Jean-François de Neufforge, Vol. 8 and a Supplement

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1757–1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre Francois DuBourg, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Pierre Francois DuBourg

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Distribution du Plan de la Retraitte, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Distribution du Plan de la Retraitte

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mon. Francois Marie Guyol de Guiran, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mon. Francois Marie Guyol de Guiran

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Livre de Vases of François Boucher, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Album of Prints: Livre de Vases of François Boucher

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738-1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1695–1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Various Chinese Figures by François Boucher, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Album of Prints: Various Chinese Figures by François Boucher

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738-1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8070 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 22:42 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.