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 “Michel Aubert” — 57 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jacob Prostrates Himself before Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat
Michel Aubert · 1744

Habillements de ceux du SOUTCHOVENE à la Chine
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat
Michel Aubert · 1739

VIOSSEU ou Musicien Chinois
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

Saint Philippe
Michel Aubert · 1726

La Déesse THVO CHVU dans l'Isle d'Hainane
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

Saint Paul
Michel Aubert · 1726

Idole de la Déesse KI MÂO SÁO dans le Royaume de Mang au pays des Laos
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

Jacob and Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat
Michel Aubert · 1744

Habillements des habitants de la Province de HOU KOUAN à la Chine
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat
Michel Aubert · 1739

Album of Prints: Fourth Book of Vases and Book of Arabesques by Aubert Parent
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1784-1792

Frontispice pour le "Tombeau de Charles Sackville, comte de Dorset" (Frontispiece for the "Tomb of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset", from Tombeaux des Princes, des Grands Capitaines et autres Hommes illustres (Tombs of Princes, Great Captains, and other Illustrious Men)
Michel Aubert · ca. 1736

Bulimina orphanensis Berggren & Aubert, 1976
Artist not stated in the record

The Laotian Goddess Ki Mao Sao and Worshippers
Bow Porcelain Factory · ca. 1750–52
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1955

The Parrot of Mr. Guizot, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 3, 1851
Honoré Daumier · July 3, 1851

Cahier de meubles contenant six lits de différents formes et dans le dernier goût, composés et dessinés par Aubert en 1789
Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835 · 1789

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Muhlenbergia racemosa (Michx.) Britton et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1955

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47
Muhlenbergia frondosa (Poir.) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1955

Snuffbox with An Allegory of Geography
Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1777–78

Sorex coronatus
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1977
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 6061 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 01:06 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.