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. 21 shown for “François Godefroy” — 52 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Children of Pomona
François Godefroy · 1778

Fan leaf
Antoine Denis Chaudet, 1763 – 1810 · ca. 1797

The Disciples of Flora
François Godefroy · 1778

Monsieur de Voltaire
Godefroy Engelmann I, French, born Mulhouse, France 1788-died Mulhouse, France 1839 · n.d.

The Fresh Morning
François Godefroy · late 18th, early 19th century

Ulrich Zwingly
Godefroy Engelmann I, French, born Mulhouse, France 1788-died Mulhouse, France 1839 · n.d.

The Rustic Orpheus
François Godefroy · late 18th, early 19th century
Homonoia riparia Lour.
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
![Sarratoga [sic] (The Surrender of General Burgoyne to General Horatio Gates, Battle of Saratoga, October 17, 1777), by François Godefroy](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP876921.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sarratoga [sic] (The Surrender of General Burgoyne to General Horatio Gates, Battle of Saratoga, October 17, 1777)
François Godefroy · 1784?
Glochidion thorelii Beille
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard
baron Antoine Jean Gros · ca. 1790
Chloris barbata Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Fan with Napoleon flanked by Peace and Victory
Charles Percier · ca. 1797–99
Sacciolepis indica (L.) Chase
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet (Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy, 1782–1850)
Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson · 1823

Dentella repens J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Ischaemum aristatum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Apluda mutica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8113 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 2026-08-29 16:23 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.