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. 16 shown for “Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière” — 17 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque piéce, par M. Bret
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière · 1773

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Armand-Auguste Caqué, French, 1793 - 1881 · 1821
![Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière [Figures de Boucher pour Molière], by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP164259.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière [Figures de Boucher pour Molière]
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse · mid-18th century

Portrait of Jean Baptiste Moliére (1620-1673)
Artist not stated in the record · 1734

Le Tombeau de Molière (au Père-Lachaise) (Molière's tomb, Père-Lachaise Cemetery), Paris, from "Etchings of Paris"
Charles Meryon · 1854

L'Etourdi (The Blunderer), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. I
Michel Lambert, French, ca. 1722–1787 · 1773

Frontispiece to Moliere's "Sganarelle, ou le Cocu Imaginaire" (The Imaginary Cuckold)
John Vandergucht · ca. 1732

La Critique de L’École des femmes (Critique of The School for Wives), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. II
Michel Lambert, French, ca. 1722–1787 · 1773

Frontispiece to Moliere's "L'Avare" (The Miser)
John Vandergucht · 1732

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

Plate
Sèvres Manufactory · 1831

Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · late 1780s

Plate
Sèvres Manufactory · 1833

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century and partially 15th century

Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1784

Comedy
Pierre Charles Trémolières · ca. 1736
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:22 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.