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. 19 shown for “Jacques Lucas” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portable horizontal sundial
Jacques Lucas · probably before 1681

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1562

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1562

Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Fountain Design, from "Livre nouveau de douze morceaux de fantaisie"
Claude Lucas, active 1710–1760 · ca. 1733

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · late 18th century

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
David Lucas · 1830

Trichodesmium scoboideum A.H.S. Lucas
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1931

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
David Lucas · 1830

Tillandsia tomasellii De Luca et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1969

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
David Lucas · 1830

Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

St. Mary Magdalen Trampling Her Valuables
Lucas Vorsterman I · 1622–23

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child
Lucas Vorsterman I · 1620

Hermaphrodite
Peter Paul Rubens · 17th century

Landscape with Three Trees in the Foreground
Lucas Achtschellinck · 1641–99
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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 13475 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 19:19 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.