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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 “Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:05 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.
Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610), by Guillaume Dupré

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)

Guillaume Dupré · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Henri IV of France Receiving Homage

Henri IV of France Receiving Homage

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Henry IV

Henry IV

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis, his consort (1573–1642), by Guillaume Dupré

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis, his consort (1573–1642)

Guillaume Dupré · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis, his consort (1573–1642), by Guillaume Dupré

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis, his consort (1573–1642)

Guillaume Dupré · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Playing Card: King of Clubs

Design for a Playing Card: King of Clubs

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610), by Guillaume Dupré

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)

Guillaume Dupré · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
La Statue Equestre de Henri IV sur le Pont neuf (Upper Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

La Statue Equestre de Henri IV sur le Pont neuf (Upper Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1685–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633), by Paul de la Houve, French, 1575 - 1643

Portrait of Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633)

Paul de la Houve, French, 1575 - 1643 · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
LA PLACE DU PONT-NEUF, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PLACE DU PONT-NEUF

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Preliminary study for cartoon for printed cotton: The History of Henry the IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Preliminary study for cartoon for printed cotton: The History of Henry the IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), by Guillaume Dupré

Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)

Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Scene 3 of cartoon for cotton printing:The History of Heny IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketch for Scene 3 of cartoon for cotton printing:The History of Heny IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astrolabe, by Regiomontanus

Astrolabe

Regiomontanus · 1462

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for scene 1 and 2 of the cartoon for cotton printing: The History of Henry IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketches for scene 1 and 2 of the cartoon for cotton printing: The History of Henry IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for scenes 1 and 2 of the cartoon for cotton printing: The History of Henry IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Voltaire, French, 1694 - 1778

Sketches for scenes 1 and 2 of the cartoon for cotton printing: The History of Henry IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Voltaire, French, 1694 - 1778 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIII (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), King of France, as youth, by Guillaume Dupré

Louis XIII (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), King of France, as youth

Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Philip IV, King of Spain, after Diego Velazquez

Portrait of Philip IV, King of Spain, after Diego Velazquez

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

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. 231 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2990553 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 19:05 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.