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 “Jacques Joseph de Gault” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778–1851), Daughter of Louis XVI
Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1795

Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains
Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831 · 1770

Snuffbox with six allegories of love
Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1775–76

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830 · 1820

Souvenir
Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1779–80

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Pierre Joseph Demongé Chardigny, French, 1794 - 1866 · 1823

Souvenir
Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1789

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830 · ca. 1821

Snuffbox with miniatures representing the Diversions of Love and dancing figure
Jacques Joseph de Gault · miniatures ca. 1775, box ca. 1838–47

Cross-section of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu Comique in Paris
Jacques Ignace Hittorff, German, 1792–1867 · ca. 1825–40

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Sugar Bowl, from the Duc d'Orléans Service
Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750 · 1787–1792

Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play
Pierre François Drais · 1770–71

Différens détails de la Glacière construite d’Après les dessins de Mr. Belanger, dans les Jardins de Mr Veressere Arcelots
Jean-François Joseph Lecointe, 1783 - 1858 · 1812

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Maison des champs exécutée à Pantin par Belanger Architecte an l’An 1785 pour M. de la Battue Americain
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect
François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier · 1785

Title Page
Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

Plate with imaginary portrait of the tragic poet Moschion
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811–18
Sporobolus neglectus Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1901
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. 1033 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 694236 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 19:49 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.