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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. 23 shown for “Pierre François Léonard Fontaine” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:09 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.
Design for Wall Decoration, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Design for Wall Decoration

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Public domainThe Met
Recueil de decorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ornement, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Recueil de decorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ornement

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Halle aux Blés, Street Plan, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

La Halle aux Blés, Street Plan

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1810

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
La Halle aux Blés, Exterior View, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

La Halle aux Blés, Exterior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Salle éxécuté au Chateau Malmaison (Room Designed for Chateau Malmaison), plate 55, in Recueil de decorations interieures (Collection of Interior Decorations), by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Salle éxécuté au Chateau Malmaison (Room Designed for Chateau Malmaison), plate 55, in Recueil de decorations interieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Halle aux Blés, Interior View, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

La Halle aux Blés, Interior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf, by Antoine Denis Chaudet, 1763 – 1810

Fan leaf

Antoine Denis Chaudet, 1763 – 1810 · ca. 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil de Decorations Intérieures, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Recueil de Decorations Intérieures

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · 1812

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
Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1806

Public domainThe Met
Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V à Paris (Perspective View of the Bedroom of Cit. V in Paris), plate 13, in Recueil de décorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations), by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V à Paris (Perspective View of the Bedroom of Cit. V in Paris), plate 13, in Recueil de décorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1806

Public domainThe Met
Design for a table with monopods, Plate 38 in Receuil des dècorations intérieurs, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Design for a table with monopods, Plate 38 in Receuil des dècorations intérieurs

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1806

Public domainThe Met
Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations), by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1806

Public domainThe Met
Fontaine executé dans une Niche de Charmille, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Fontaine executé dans une Niche de Charmille

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · ca. 1806

Public domainThe Met
Print in a book entitled "Receuil de Fontaines.", by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Print in a book entitled "Receuil de Fontaines."

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1703–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Receuil de Fontaines, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Receuil de Fontaines

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1703–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook of a Journey to the Château d'Eu, by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Sketchbook of a Journey to the Château d'Eu

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Fontaine Rustique, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Fontaine Rustique

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

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. 182 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. 68148 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 19:09 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.