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. 23 shown for “Joseph Gagliano (1742–1820)” — 53 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:35 UTC · fetched live for this request

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.

Viola d'Amore

Joseph Gagliano (1742–1820) · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)

Georges Jacob · 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Col. Topham Endeavouring, With His Squirt, to Extinguish the Genius of Holman]

Thomas Rowlandson · December 10, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The State Auction

Thomas Rowlandson · March 26, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Master Billy's Procession to Grocers Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · March 8, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study

Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study

Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

A Prisoner at Avignon, from "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

Thomas Rowlandson · 1820

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Folding Doors or Panels

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Times - Or A View Of The Old House In Little Brittain - With Nobody Going To Hannover

Thomas Rowlandson · January 23, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Madame de Saint-Morys (Eléonore Elisabeth Angélique de Beauterne, 1742–1824)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1776

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré"

Mason Jackson · October 2, 1862

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

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. 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. 84317 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 20:35 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.

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Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.