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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. 24 shown for “Henri Charles Guérard” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 10:09 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.
Self-Portrait, by Henri Charles Guérard

Self-Portrait

Henri Charles Guérard · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Tester and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Tester and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeanne Gonzales Painting in the Garden, by Henri Charles Guérard

Jeanne Gonzales Painting in the Garden

Henri Charles Guérard · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Tester and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Tester and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece to "Eaux-fortes de Guérard, Collection de Mr. S. P. [Samuel Putnam] Avery, New York", by Henri Charles Guérard

Frontispiece to "Eaux-fortes de Guérard, Collection de Mr. S. P. [Samuel Putnam] Avery, New York"

Henri Charles Guérard · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Vague, Marseille, ou le Mistral, Marseille (The Wave or the Mistral, Marseille), by Henri Charles Guérard

La Vague, Marseille, ou le Mistral, Marseille (The Wave or the Mistral, Marseille)

Henri Charles Guérard · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met
Tester and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Tester and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistler's "Portrait of Himself", by Henri Charles Guérard

Whistler's "Portrait of Himself"

Henri Charles Guérard · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supplier, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", by Henri Charles Guérard

The Supplier, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Henri Charles Guérard · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Tester and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Tester and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Bronze Dragon Incense Burner, by Henri Charles Guérard

Large Bronze Dragon Incense Burner

Henri Charles Guérard · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Dossier de lit, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Dossier de lit

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laure, after Eva Gonzalès, by Henri Charles Guérard

Laure, after Eva Gonzalès

Henri Charles Guérard · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Carré de Courtepointe / Soubassemet de courtepointe, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Carré de Courtepointe / Soubassemet de courtepointe

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Design with Cats and Sunflowers, by Henri Charles Guérard

Fan Design with Cats and Sunflowers

Henri Charles Guérard · ca. 1885–90

Public domainThe Met
Tester and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Tester and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistler's "Portrait of Himself", by Henri Charles Guérard

Whistler's "Portrait of Himself"

Henri Charles Guérard · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Headboard, Backpiece, and Valance Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistler's "Portrait of Himself", by Henri Charles Guérard

Whistler's "Portrait of Himself"

Henri Charles Guérard · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Headboard and Backpiece Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Headboard and Backpiece Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Female Nude, by Henri Lehmann

Study of a Female Nude

Henri Lehmann · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Nouveau Livre de desseins de Portes Cocheres, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Nouveau Livre de desseins de Portes Cocheres

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · ca. 1715

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. 2244 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 234018 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 10:09 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.