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. 21 shown for “Jacques Louis David” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 12:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

An Art Lesson
Unknown, French · 1820s

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Plans Coupes Elévations et detail des deux Chaumières au cidevant jardin de Chantilly/ par le Roy, Architect
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Jacques Louis David · 1787

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

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)
Jacques Louis David · 1816

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Louis Adolphe Thiers
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier
Briceau, French, 16..–17.. · 1650-1734

Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli
François Marius Granet · ca. 1810–20

Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker
Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1788–90

Portrait of Napoleon I
baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11

Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)

Scene from Ancient History: Cup Offered to an Invalid
Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers
Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936 · n.d.a.

The Cardinal Pacca
Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Study of a Pyramid
Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Paris and Helen
Jacques Louis David · ca. 1782–86
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. 1991 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 128270 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 12:53 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.