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. 14 shown for “Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse” — 29 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait de Alexandre Cabanel
Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse · 1865

L' Ecu de France
Adolphe Mouilleron, French, born Paris, France 1820-died Paris, France 1881 · n.d.

The Bone Player
Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse · 1857

Andrew Jackson
Jean-Baptiste Adolphe La Fosse, c. 1810 - 1879 · 1856

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

Ugolino and His Sons
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865–67

Troops at Rest
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

Troops on the March
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

La Colombe et Le Tigre. Ma collection de photographies de la Comtesse de Castiglione
Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1860s

Mosquée de Cordoue and La Giralda et l'Alcazar de Séville
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · [1837]

A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1658

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault
Melchior Tavernier · 1629

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault
Melchior Tavernier · 1629

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault
Melchior Tavernier · 1629
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:15 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.