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. 11 shown for “Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Floral Decoration
Pierre Ranson · 18th century

Wall paneling
Pierre Ranson · 1770–80

Design for a Chair Seat Cover
Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1850–70

Design for Oval Cartouche
Gautier d'Agoty · 18th century

Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle
Paul Ranson · ca. 1895

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

New Book of Twelve Pieces of Fantasy useful for various purposes
Jacques de La Joue the Younger · [ca. 1736]

Œuvres du marquis de Villette
Charles-Michel Villette, marquis de Villette · 1786

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
![[Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux de Fantaisie], by Jacques de La Joue the Younger](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-25473-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux de Fantaisie]
Jacques de La Joue the Younger · [1736]

The Declaration of Love
Jean François de Troy · ca. 1724
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. 13 matched · 13 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:20 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.