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. 12 shown for “François Voisin, French, active 18th century” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 08:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825)
Louis-François Jeannest · 1812

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Mémoire sur un rouet a filer des deux mains a la fois
Clousier · 1777

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun
J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19
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. 1545 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 08:16 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.