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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. 23 shown for “François Nicolas Martinet” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 23:32 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.
L'Aigrette (Egret), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux", by François Nicolas Martinet

L'Aigrette (Egret), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"

François Nicolas Martinet · 1770–86

Public domainThe Met
Album of Cartouche Designs, by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Album of Cartouche Designs

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autruche (Ostrich), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux", by François Nicolas Martinet

Autruche (Ostrich), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"

François Nicolas Martinet · 1770–86

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche, by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Design for a Cartouche

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux", by François Nicolas Martinet

Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"

François Nicolas Martinet · 1770–86

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Bound print

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Sea Motifs

Cartouche with Sea Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1739–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
View of Choir With Rood Screen in Church of Notre Dame

View of Choir With Rood Screen in Church of Notre Dame

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement", by I. Oger, French, active 18th c.

Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement"

I. Oger, French, active 18th c. · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
André François Alloys de Theys d'Herculais (1692–1779), by Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)

André François Alloys de Theys d'Herculais (1692–1779)

Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1727

Public domainThe Met
Plan du Lit de Justice Tenu par LE ROY le 13. Decembre 1756. Dans la Grande Chambre du Parlement, au Palais, à Paris, by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Plan du Lit de Justice Tenu par LE ROY le 13. Decembre 1756. Dans la Grande Chambre du Parlement, au Palais, à Paris

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Meillerie Mountains, by Mme. Duchateau

View of the Meillerie Mountains

Mme. Duchateau · 1779–97

Public domainThe Met
Plan du Lit de Justice, Tenu par le Roy le Aoust 1756. dans la Grande Sale des Gardes au Château de Versailles., by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Plan du Lit de Justice, Tenu par le Roy le Aoust 1756. dans la Grande Sale des Gardes au Château de Versailles.

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Rake, by Jean-François Millet

Woman with a Rake

Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

Public domainThe Met
Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté, by Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté

Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Trophy Design

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box (part of a set), by Nicolas François Foulon

Box (part of a set)

Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
La Sculpture, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

La Sculpture

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Musique, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

La Musique

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

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. 537 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. 13103 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:32 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.