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. 24 shown for “Francois de Poilly” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Virgin in prayer looking down, in an oval frame, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · 1640–93

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

The Virgin in prayer, looking up with clouds behind her, in an oval frame, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · 1648–81

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

An old man crying into a tunic while his sons pull it away from him
Francois de Poilly · 1724

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

The adoration of the shepherds who kneel together at right before the infant Christ, the Virgin and Saint Joseph at left, two angels above, in an octagonal frame, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · ca. 1655–93

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

A bust portrait of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, flanked by two angels and two allegorical figures, the angel at right standing atop a man with snakes in his hair
Francois de Poilly · ca. 1640–93

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

The Virgin in prayer looking down, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · ca. 1640–93

Mater Dolorosa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

Young woman spinning thread for an arrow
François II de Poilly · 1686–1741

Design for an Andiron
Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

The Virgin seated with the infant Christ sleeping in her lap, in an oval frame, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · ca. 1655–70

Wrought Iron Grille Designs
Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the left and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni
Francois de Poilly · ca. 1648–81

Design for an Andiron
Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Andiron Designs
Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

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

Wrought Iron Grille Designs
Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765

Plan des Caves d'une Maison de Campagne
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745
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. 2920 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. 617257 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-29 00:07 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.