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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 “Nicolas Cochin” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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.
Observations sur les Antiquites de la ville d'Herculanum, Avec quelques reflexions sur la Peinture et la Sculpture des Anciens, by Charles Nicolas Cochin II

Observations sur les Antiquites de la ville d'Herculanum, Avec quelques reflexions sur la Peinture et la Sculpture des Anciens

Charles Nicolas Cochin II · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Pomone, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Triomphe de Pomone

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Decoration du Bal Paré Donne Par Le Roy

Decoration du Bal Paré Donne Par Le Roy

Artist not stated in the record · 1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The procession of the casket of St. Genevieve, with clerics and laymen marching in six rows; in the foreground the Archbishop of Paris is carried in a chair, the Chasse in the row above him, and the monks of the monasteries of Paris lead the procession at top, by Nicolas Cochin

The procession of the casket of St. Genevieve, with clerics and laymen marching in six rows; in the foreground the Archbishop of Paris is carried in a chair, the Chasse in the row above him, and the monks of the monasteries of Paris lead the procession at top

Nicolas Cochin · 1652

Public domainThe Met
L'HISTOIRE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

L'HISTOIRE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
LA SCULPTURE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA SCULPTURE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790

Print

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
LA PHARMACIE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA PHARMACIE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Léda, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Léda

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Les Fruits de L'Automne

Les Fruits de L'Automne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735-1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Pomone

Triomphe de Pomone

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Priape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Triomphe de Priape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Hommage Champètre, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Hommage Champètre

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
LA BOTANIQUE., by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA BOTANIQUE.

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1738

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. 204 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. 5917 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 13:36 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.