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 de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:05 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.

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764)
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1748–51

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765
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. 1634 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 2026-08-26 18:05 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.