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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. 23 shown for “Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)” — 62 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:12 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.
Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)

Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1499

Public domainThe Met
Indépendence des États-Unis, by Louis Roger

Indépendence des États-Unis

Louis Roger · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)

Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1499

Public domainThe Met
King Alphonse XII, by August Weger, 1823 - 1892

King Alphonse XII

August Weger, 1823 - 1892 · c. 1875-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anne of Austria, Queen Mother of France (1601–66) and her son Louis XIV (1638–1715), by Jean Varin

Anne of Austria, Queen Mother of France (1601–66) and her son Louis XIV (1638–1715)

Jean Varin · 1645

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
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
Louis XIII, by Dag Gant

Louis XIII

Dag Gant · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso), by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), by Guillaume Dupré

Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)

Guillaume Dupré · 1620 and 1623

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Antoine Desboeufs, French, 1793 - 1862

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Antoine Desboeufs, French, 1793 - 1862 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), by Guillaume Dupré

Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)

Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial tazza, by Italian

Armorial tazza

Italian · 1499–1514

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Louis XIV, King of France

Portrait of Louis XIV, King of France

Artist not stated in the record · 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIII (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), King of France, as youth, by Guillaume Dupré

Louis XIII (b. 1601, r. 1610–43), King of France, as youth

Guillaume Dupré · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornaments in the Queen's Apartment at the Old Louvre designed by Charles Errard, by Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689

Album of Prints: Ornaments in the Queen's Apartment at the Old Louvre designed by Charles Errard

Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689 · 1664-1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Execution of King Louis X, by Paul-André Basset

Execution of King Louis X

Paul-André Basset · ca. 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, Anne of Brittany

Plaque, Anne of Brittany

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Section of wall, salon Louis XIII, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, salon Louis XIII, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 2947208 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 16:12 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.