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. 18 shown for “François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller” — 46 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
L'Assemblee au Salon
François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller · N.D.

Album of Prints: Chinoiseries and Screens designed by Gabriel Huquier and François Boucher
Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · 1740–1770

Portrait of René Duguay-Trouin, Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King
François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller · 1765–1807

Album of Prints from Various Series Published by Jean Mariette
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1686-1742

Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, after Mattia Preti
François André Vincent · ca. 1774

Candlestick Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Candlestick Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

The Louvre, from Port St. Nicolas, Plate 63 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"
Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Album of Cartouche Designs
François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 18th century

Design for a Cartouche
François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1760

Design for Ceramic Stove
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1731–68

Design for Ceiling Ornament
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

Andiron (Firedog) Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

Candlestick Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

Andiron (Firedog) Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13718 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-06 20:21 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.