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 de Saint-Igny” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bust of a Young Man
Jean de Saint-Igny · n.d.
Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Cavaliers in a City Square
Jean de Saint-Igny · early 17th century

Jean Marie Soulier
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

Gentleman with a Sword
Abraham Bosse · 1629

Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

The Amorous Widower
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape
Abraham Bosse · 1629

Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau
Abraham Bosse · 1629

Possibly Jean Noel Destréhan
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

A Man Holding a Crop
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Jean-Victor Moreau
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Jean Joseph Coiron
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

Gentleman in a Cape and Plumed Hat Seen from the Back
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Jean Simon Chaudron
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

Gentleman Holding a Crop
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Jean Salomon Fazi
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Acer saccharum Marshall
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935

Gentleman with a Glove
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Gratiola aurea Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940
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. 6598 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. 211 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 01:13 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.