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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 “Mme. la comtesse de Genlis” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:54 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.
Annales de la vertu, ou, Cours d'histoire a l'usage des jeunes personnes, by Mme. la comtesse de Genlis

Annales de la vertu, ou, Cours d'histoire a l'usage des jeunes personnes

Mme. la comtesse de Genlis · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plate 37, in Recueil de decorations interieures (Collection of Interior Decorations), by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plate 37, in Recueil de decorations interieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1801–12

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1748–51

Public domainThe Met
Woven portrait, by Philippe de la Salle, French, 1723–1803

Woven portrait

Philippe de la Salle, French, 1723–1803 · ca. 1771

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divisés en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en général, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664, by Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli

Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divisés en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en général, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664

Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778 by John Smith, by Smith, John

Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778 by John Smith

Smith, John · ca 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

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

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Mme la Marquise de Belfons, by Pieter Schenk, German, 1660-1711

Mme la Marquise de Belfons

Pieter Schenk, German, 1660-1711 · ca. 1700

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
Pair of Glass Coolers (Seaux à Verre Echancrés), from a Service Acquired by Madame la Comtesse du Barry, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Pair of Glass Coolers (Seaux à Verre Echancrés), from a Service Acquired by Madame la Comtesse du Barry

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Iberis intermedia Guers.

Iberis intermedia Guers.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755), by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
L'Une des Faces de la Chambre à Coucher de Mme G. à Pari, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

L'Une des Faces de la Chambre à Coucher de Mme G. à Pari

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

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
Saxifraga pedemontana All.

Saxifraga pedemontana All.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

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
Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Unxia camphorata L. f.

Unxia camphorata L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1984

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. 34 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. 773959 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 20:54 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.