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Images / art

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 Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:36 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Assemblée des Notables, Versailles, 1787, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Assemblée des Notables, Versailles, 1787

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1787

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814

John Paul Jones

Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Foire de Gonesse, from Choix de chasons mises in musique par M. De La Borde, Premier Valet-de-Chambre ordinaire du Roi, Gouverneur du Louvre. Ornées d'Estampes Par J.M. Moreau, Dédiées à Madame la Dauphine. A Paris Chez de Lormel, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale de Musique rue du Foin Siant-Jacques. MDCCLXXIII. Avec Aprobation et Privilège du Roi. Gravées par Moria et M.lle Vendôme, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

La Foire de Gonesse, from Choix de chasons mises in musique par M. De La Borde, Premier Valet-de-Chambre ordinaire du Roi, Gouverneur du Louvre. Ornées d'Estampes Par J.M. Moreau, Dédiées à Madame la Dauphine. A Paris Chez de Lormel, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale de Musique rue du Foin Siant-Jacques. MDCCLXXIII. Avec Aprobation et Privilège du Roi. Gravées par Moria et M.lle Vendôme

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Mirabeau Arrive Aux Champs Élisées, by Louis Joseph Masquelier, 1741 - 1811

Mirabeau Arrive Aux Champs Élisées

Louis Joseph Masquelier, 1741 - 1811 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perfect Harmony, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Perfect Harmony

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1776

Public domainThe Met
Catafalque, by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814

Catafalque

Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outing in a Wood, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Outing in a Wood

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner", by Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner"

Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788 · ca. 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Engraving "Réjouissances du Peuple . . . à Reims le 27 aout 1765", by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Design for the Engraving "Réjouissances du Peuple . . . à Reims le 27 aout 1765"

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Louis XVI of France Taking the Oath at His Coronation

Louis XVI of France Taking the Oath at His Coronation

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comme ils en étaient là, arrive l'oncle, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Comme ils en étaient là, arrive l'oncle

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · ca. 1778

Public domainThe Met
Déclaration de la Grossesse, Plate 13 from "Monument de Costume"

Déclaration de la Grossesse, Plate 13 from "Monument de Costume"

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wager Won, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

The Wager Won

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1778

Public domainThe Met
C'est un fils, Monsieur!, Plate 17 from "Monument du Costume"

C'est un fils, Monsieur!, Plate 17 from "Monument du Costume"

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Program of Fontainbleau Theater, October 13–November 17, 1777 (Repertoire de Fontainbleau), by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814

Program of Fontainbleau Theater, October 13–November 17, 1777 (Repertoire de Fontainbleau)

Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birth of the Dauphin: The Crowd Watching the Fireworks on the Place de la Grève, Paris, January 21, 1782, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Birth of the Dauphin: The Crowd Watching the Fireworks on the Place de la Grève, Paris, January 21, 1782

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1782, reprinted ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Program for the Court Performances at the Fontainbleau Theater (Repertoire de Fontainbleau), by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814

Program for the Court Performances at the Fontainbleau Theater (Repertoire de Fontainbleau)

Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814 · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Maker of Scales, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

The Maker of Scales

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814

Title Page

Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanale, by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Bacchanale

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Volume I of Oeuvres de Molière, avec des remarques grammaticales, des Avertissimens et des Observations sur chaque Pièce par M. Bret. A Paris, Par la Compagnie des libraires associés. M.D.CC.LXXIII., by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Volume I of Oeuvres de Molière, avec des remarques grammaticales, des Avertissimens et des Observations sur chaque Pièce par M. Bret. A Paris, Par la Compagnie des libraires associés. M.D.CC.LXXIII.

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune · published in 1788

Public domainThe Met
Les Précautions (The Precautions), from Le Monument du Costume, by Laurent-François Prault, French, 1740–1806

Les Précautions (The Precautions), from Le Monument du Costume

Laurent-François Prault, French, 1740–1806 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 36 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. 51141 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 20:36 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.