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 “Pierre Claude Mothé” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Étui
Pierre Claude Mothé · ca. 1750–60

Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature
G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Coupes du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1639

Détail du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

View of La Crescenza
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50

Détail du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg
Claude Guy Hallé · ca. 1681

Table de Jeu
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

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

Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

François de La Mothe Le Vayer
Claude Mellan · 1648

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Coupes du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Pierre Gassendi
Claude Mellan · ca. 1637 or 1638

Micropholis guyanensis (A. DC.) Pierre subsp. guyanensis
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1979 to 27 Apr 1979

Table de Jeu
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788
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. 519 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29577 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 2026-08-26 17:56 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.