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-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794” — 62 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York], by Anonymous, French, 18th century](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-44758-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

Title Page
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Livre d'Ornemens
Juste Aurèle Meissonnier · n.d.

Trophies with Attributes of Music
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées
Jean Charles Delafosse · 1740–89

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

Oeuvres Diverses de Lalonde. Tome 2.
Richard de Lalonde · late 18th century

Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

Design for a Clock, Title Page to 'Cahier de six Pendules'
Jean François Forty · ca. 1770

Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

Autumn (one of a pair)
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1742–45

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Le Sultan
Louis Michel Halbou · ca. 1760–90

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Head of a man with a beard
Louis Marin Bonnet · ca. 1755–93

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Saint Lawrence at the Stake
Anonymous · ca. 1700–29

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Evening
Gilles Edme Petit

Elévations et Profils de différens Lambris d'appui
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

Morning
Gilles Edme Petit

Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 1416 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 05:27 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.