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. 12 shown for “Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:24 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.

View of a City, plate XI from "Livre de paysages dédié à Monsieur de Beringhen"
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1693

View of a Town, plate X from "Livre de paysages dédié à Monsieur de Beringhen"
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1693

Book Cover (Two Flower Vases)
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1656

Ambassador of Siam before Louis XIV
Sébastien Leclerc I · n.d.

Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1671

Laboratoire dans le Jardin Royale des Plantes
Sébastien Leclerc I · n.d.

Allegorical Medal in Honor of Louis XIV
Sébastien Leclerc I · n.d.

The Entry of Alexander into Babylon
Sébastien Leclerc I · ca. 1704

The Reception of Louis XIV at the Hôtel de Ville on the Occasion of his Recovery, January 30, 1687
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1687

Colbert Visiting the Gobelins
Sébastien Leclerc I · ca. 1665

Galerie des Glaces at Versailles
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1684

L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts
Sébastien Leclerc I · 1698
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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:24 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.