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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. 24 shown for “Louis Jacques Cathelin” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 04:20 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
Lucretia seated, half naked, stabbing herself in the stomach with a dagger in her right hand and holding a cloth in her raised left hand, looking upwards, after Pellegrini?, by Louis Jacques Cathelin

Lucretia seated, half naked, stabbing herself in the stomach with a dagger in her right hand and holding a cloth in her raised left hand, looking upwards, after Pellegrini?

Louis Jacques Cathelin · 1782

Public domainThe Met
J.J Balechou célèbre graveur

J.J Balechou célèbre graveur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785-89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Maria Theresa of Savoy, The Countess d'Artois, by Louis Jacques Cathelin

Portrait of Maria Theresa of Savoy, The Countess d'Artois

Louis Jacques Cathelin · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Countess of Provence, by Louis Jacques Cathelin

Portrait of Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Countess of Provence

Louis Jacques Cathelin · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Louis Jacques Cathelin

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Louis Jacques Cathelin · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Louis Adolphe Thiers, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier, by Briceau, French, 16..–17..

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier

Briceau, French, 16..–17.. · 1650-1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1788–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie, by Joseph Vernet

Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers, by Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936

Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers

Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Jacques Goullons

Watch

Jacques Goullons · ca. 1645–48

Public domainThe Met
Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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., by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

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

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Chateau of Daguerre at Bry-Sur-Marne, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Chateau of Daguerre at Bry-Sur-Marne

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Paneling (boiserie) Design for a Mirror, by Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745

Paneling (boiserie) Design for a Mirror

Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745 · 1749

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. 966 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 46685 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-02 04:20 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.