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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 Joseph Le Lorrain” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:02 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.
Boudier d'Hercules, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Boudier d'Hercules

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Venus Genitrix: Fireworks

Venus Genitrix: Fireworks

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Capriccio with an Obelisk, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Architectural Capriccio with an Obelisk

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain · ca. 1750–59

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Fountain and Obelisk, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Architectural Fantasy with Fountain and Obelisk

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Descente D'Ulysse Aux Enfers, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

La Descente D'Ulysse Aux Enfers

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ruins with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Ruins with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Capriccio with a Palace seen through a Triumphal Arch, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Architectural Capriccio with a Palace seen through a Triumphal Arch

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain · ca. 1750–59

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Public domainThe Met
Ruin Fantasy, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Ruin Fantasy

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · ca. 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece for a Suite of Vase Designs, by Louis Joseph Le Lorrain

Frontispiece for a Suite of Vase Designs

Louis Joseph Le Lorrain · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
Album of prints: Public Celebrations Given in Paris on the Occasions of the First and Second Marriages of Monseigneur le Dauphin in 1745 and 1747, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Album of prints: Public Celebrations Given in Paris on the Occasions of the First and Second Marriages of Monseigneur le Dauphin in 1745 and 1747

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Recueil des ouvrages en serrurerie que Stanislas le Bien-Faisant, roi de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, a fait poser sur la Place royale de Nancy, à la gloire de Louis le Bien-Aimé, composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour, son serrurier ordinaire, avec un discours sur l'art de serrurerie, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Recueil des ouvrages en serrurerie que Stanislas le Bien-Faisant, roi de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, a fait poser sur la Place royale de Nancy, à la gloire de Louis le Bien-Aimé, composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour, son serrurier ordinaire, avec un discours sur l'art de serrurerie

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
RECUEIL DES OUVRAGES EN SERRURERIE que STANISLAS LE BIEN-FAISANT, Roy de Pologne, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar a fait poser sur la place Royale DE NANCY, à la gloire de Louis le BIEN-AIMÉ, Composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour son Serrurier ordinaire avec un discours sur L’art de Serrurerie et plusieurs autres desseins de Son Invention. Dedié au Roy., by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

RECUEIL DES OUVRAGES EN SERRURERIE que STANISLAS LE BIEN-FAISANT, Roy de Pologne, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar a fait poser sur la place Royale DE NANCY, à la gloire de Louis le BIEN-AIMÉ, Composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour son Serrurier ordinaire avec un discours sur L’art de Serrurerie et plusieurs autres desseins de Son Invention. Dedié au Roy.

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1759–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Almanac for the Second Half of the Year 1792

Almanac for the Second Half of the Year 1792

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle vase, by Ernest Chaplet

Bottle vase

Ernest Chaplet · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Suite des plans elevations et coupes des chateaux que le roy de Pologne occupe en Loraine, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Suite des plans elevations et coupes des chateaux que le roy de Pologne occupe en Loraine

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

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. 488 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 149567 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 20:02 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.