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 “Gilles Edme Petit” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
After-dinner
Gilles Edme Petit

Album of Prints: Oeuvre of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, engraved by Gabriel Huquier
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Evening
Gilles Edme Petit

Album of Prints: First and Second Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737-1749

Morning
Gilles Edme Petit

Album of Prints: Miscellaneous Ornament Designs by Pierre Edme Babel
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Midday. A Lady Setting Her Watch
Gilles Edme Petit

Edme Ducatel
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Album of Prints: First Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737-1749

Frontispiece from "Collection of Portraits"
Etienne Jehandier Desrochers · 1714–41

Title Page
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record · 1861

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard
Gilles-Antoine Demarteau · 1776–1802

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record

Recueil d'Ornemens A l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des bâtimens
Gilles Paul Cauvet · 1777

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1878

Recueil d'Ornemens à l'usage des jeunes artistes
Gilles Paul Cauvet · 1777

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1816

Petit paysan au tambourin
Gilles Demarteau · 18th century

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record

The Mass of Saint Basil
Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.
Artist not stated in the record · 18
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. 57 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. 7831 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-05 07:04 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.