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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 “Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard (Madame Fragonard)” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:44 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.
Portrait of a Boy, by Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard (Madame Fragonard)

Portrait of a Boy

Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard (Madame Fragonard) · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Oriental Scene, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806

Oriental Scene

Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Pastoral Scene, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806

Pastoral Scene

Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

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
L'Escarpolette, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

L'Escarpolette

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Two Sisters, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Two Sisters

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Le Docteur Francklin Couronné par la Liberté, by Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non, 1727 - 1791

Le Docteur Francklin Couronné par la Liberté

Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non, 1727 - 1791 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Stolen Kiss, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Stolen Kiss

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

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
The Love Letter, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Love Letter

Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

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

Almanac for the First Half of the Year 1792

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Almanac for the First Half of the Year 1778, with Portraits of the Royal French Family, by Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799

Almanac for the First Half of the Year 1778, with Portraits of the Royal French Family

Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt

Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard, by baron Antoine Jean Gros

François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard

baron Antoine Jean Gros · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Mary Ann Bickerdyke, by Alexander Hay Ritchie, 21 Jan 1822 - 19 Sep 1895

Mary Ann Bickerdyke

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 21 Jan 1822 - 19 Sep 1895 · c. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Mary Ann Walker Bell, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Mary Ann Walker Bell

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard, by Charles Louis François Le Carpentier

Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard

Charles Louis François Le Carpentier · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Mary Ann Smith Gilmor, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Mary Ann Smith Gilmor

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1803

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. 83 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. 74609 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-06 20:44 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.