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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. 13 shown for “Nicolas Le Sueur” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Philip Neri, kneeling at left, with the Virgin and child appearing at upper right
Nicolas Le Sueur · ca. 1729
Frieze, from the set, "Ornemens à la Mode"
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder, French, ca. 1515 - after 1584 · ca. 1650
The invention of the cross; three men lifting a cross from a trench; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pinturicchio
Nicolas Le Sueur · ca. 1729–64
Assumption of the Virgin; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Giuseppe Passeri
Nicolas Le Sueur · ca. 1729–40
Pharaoh's army engulfed by the Red Sea; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Giovanni Francesco Penni
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · ca. 1729–40
Alexander the Great freeing Timoclea, from "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat"
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · ca. 1729–40
The Virgin and Child seated on a pedestal at center, to the right a monk offers a flower, and in the foreground a saint kneels before them while Saint Lawrence rests his hands on a gridiron; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pietro Antonio de' Pietri
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · ca. 1729
A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · ca. 1729–64
The Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur · probably ca. 1640
The Companions of Rinaldo
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
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. 1330 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. 32487 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 08:58 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.