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. 12 shown for “Joueur de Guitarre” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 02:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Le Joueur de Chalumeau
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince · 1770

Musette Player (Le Joueur de Musette)
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 18th century

The Billiard Room
Nicolas Antoine Taunay · after 1810

Le Joueur de Violin (The Violin Player), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set
Jacques Callot · 1617

Le Joueur de Vielle (The Hurdy-Gurdy Player), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)
Jacques Callot · ca. 1623

Le Joueur de Flageolet (The Flageolet Player), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)
Jacques Callot · 1616–22

Le Joueur de Violon (The Violin Player), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)
Jacques Callot · 1616–22

Reverse Copy of Le Joueur de Vielle (The Hurdy-Gurdy Player), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)
Anonymous · 17th century

Reverse Copy of Joueur de Vielle (Hurdy-Gurdy Player), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)
Anonymous · 17th century

Joueurs de vielle
Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard · 1850–53
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 · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 02:07 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.