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 “Jean François Rousseau, French, born ca. 1740” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Eugenie ou la Noblesse
Jean François Rousseau, French, born ca. 1740 · n.d.

The Repast of the Lion
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907

Designs of Carriage Parts
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Designs of Carriage Parts
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Cabriolet
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Haystacks: Autumn
Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · ca. 1780

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Calèche à Bancs
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Cabriolet
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter
Jean Marc Nattier · 1749

Cabriolet
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Studies of Noses
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

Jean Marc Nattier (1685–1766)
Louis Tocqué · ca. 1740

Study of a Head
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Studies of Ears
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)
Georges Jacob · 1784

Studies of a Head
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773
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. 310 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. 270268 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 2026-09-03 05:00 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.