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. 20 shown for “Jean-François-Antoine Bovy” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 23:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Frantz Liszt (1811–1866)
Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1840

Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1727

François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1877)
Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · probably mid-19th century

Panel Design
Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century

Louis-Philippe and Building of the French Railways
Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1842

Panel Design
Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century

Universal Exhibition of London, 1862
Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1862

Title Page
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 19th century

Hagar in the Wilderness
Camille Corot · 1835

MOMUS
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Bacchante by the Sea
Camille Corot · 1865

Door Design
Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · 1755–76

The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")
Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857

LA CAUSE BADINE
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

LA FAVORITE DE FLORE
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

LA FOLIE
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

LE MARCHAND D'ORVIETAN
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

LE FRILEUX
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Panel Design
Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 92 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 2026-09-06 23:04 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.