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. 12 shown for “Jean Clouet” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Guillaume Budé (1467–1540)
Jean Clouet · ca. 1536

Charles de Cossé (1506–1563), Count of Brissac
Jean Clouet · ca. 1535

Henri d'Albret (1503–55), King of Navarre
Léonard Limosin · 1556

Dish: The Destruction of the Hosts of Pharaoh
Master IC (probably Jean Court) · probably early 17th century

Henri II, roi de France
Jean Morin

Portrait of a Man
François Clouet

Portrait of La Val de Pramence
François Clouet · 16th century

Henry II (1519–1559), King of France
François Clouet

Anne de Pisseleu (1508–1576), Duchesse d'Étampes
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535–40

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Portrait of a Man
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1545

Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Annunziata of Savoy
French Painter
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. 37 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 19:57 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.