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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 “François Joseph Belanger” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Two Exterior Elevations for a House, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Two Exterior Elevations for a House

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

Public domainThe Met
Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase on a column stand, by Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles

Vase on a column stand

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles · after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Garden of Monsieur de Ste. James at Neuilly, France

Garden of Monsieur de Ste. James at Neuilly, France

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Elevation for the Projected Mill at Méréville, by François Joseph Belanger

An Elevation for the Projected Mill at Méréville

François Joseph Belanger · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Frontispiece

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Anointing of Louis XVI at His Coronation in Reims Cathedral, June 11, 1775, by François Joseph Belanger

The Anointing of Louis XVI at His Coronation in Reims Cathedral, June 11, 1775

François Joseph Belanger · 1814

Public domainThe Met
Maison des champs exécutée à Pantin par Belanger Architecte an l’An 1785 pour M. de la Battue Americain, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Maison des champs exécutée à Pantin par Belanger Architecte an l’An 1785 pour M. de la Battue Americain

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Ceiling of a Salon in the Hotel de Mazarin, by François Joseph Belanger

Study for the Ceiling of a Salon in the Hotel de Mazarin

François Joseph Belanger · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Dining-Room Ceiling of the Bagatelle Pavilion, by François Joseph Belanger

Study for the Dining-Room Ceiling of the Bagatelle Pavilion

François Joseph Belanger · 1760–1818

Public domainThe Met
Plan general et coupe d’une Maison construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Plan general et coupe d’une Maison construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin, by François Joseph Belanger

Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by François Joseph Belanger

Winter

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Différens détails de la Glacière construite d’Après les dessins de Mr. Belanger, dans les Jardins de Mr Veressere Arcelots, by Jean-François Joseph Lecointe, 1783 - 1858

Différens détails de la Glacière construite d’Après les dessins de Mr. Belanger, dans les Jardins de Mr Veressere Arcelots

Jean-François Joseph Lecointe, 1783 - 1858 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn, by François Joseph Belanger

Autumn

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Summer, by François Joseph Belanger

Summer

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1775

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. 611 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. 92333 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.