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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-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759” — 42 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:07 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Title Page, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Title Page

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

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
NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette for the first chant of Roland Furieux, by C. Baquoy

Vignette for the first chant of Roland Furieux

C. Baquoy · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Tailpiece Designs, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Four Tailpiece Designs

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

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

Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Eight Tailpiece Designs, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Eight Tailpiece Designs

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

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. 28 matched · 24 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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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 22:07 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.