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. 13 shown for “Jacques Gauvain” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commemoration of the Visit of the Dauphin Francis, Son of Francis I, to the City of Lyon in 1533
Jacques Gauvain · 1533

Adenostyles alliariae (Gouan) A. Kern.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1867

Oxalis acetosella L.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1867 to May 1867

Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmb.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1866

Groenlandia densa Fourr.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1866

Carex frigida All.
Artist not stated in the record
Vertebrata hendryi (N.L. Gardner) Savoie & G.W. Saunders
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1976

Meum athamanticum Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1867 to Jul 1867
Vertebrata hendryi (N.L. Gardner) Savoie & G.W. Saunders
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1976

Album of Prints: First, Second, and Third Book of Vases by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

Album of Prints: New Vases Designed by Maurice Jacques
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7944 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 02:37 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.