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 “Pierre Gouthière, French, 1740 - 1806” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 13:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

Design for an andiron
Pierre Gouthière, French, 1740 - 1806 · 1775-1781

Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1775

Flambeau
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1775

Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion
Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

Clock
Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque
Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

Milk jug (pot à lait ovoïde) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Soleils
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Chandeliers d'acolytes
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Mustard pot
Pierre-Nicolas Sommé · 1777–78

Crosses
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie
Joseph Vernet · ca. 1750–1800

Cuvettes à huile
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Flambeaux
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Title Page
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Title Page
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Plafond de la Chambre de Me.la Princesse de Rohan
Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · after 1745
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. 29 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. 99192 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 2026-09-10 13:22 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.