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 “Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, called the Chevalier de Lespinasse” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:45 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.

The Château de Versailles Seen from the Gardens
Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, called the Chevalier de Lespinasse · 1779

Versailles Seen from the Southwest
Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, called the Chevalier de Lespinasse · 1779

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Louis XV (1710–1774) as a Child
Hyacinthe Rigaud · ca. 1716–24

The Outer Harbor of Brest
Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe · 1773

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
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. 143 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:45 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.