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 “Victor Adam” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Camels in a Landscape
Victor Adam · mid 19th century

Military Vignettes
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1830–1840

Un an de la vie d'un jeune homme: Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres, Ecrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam (A Year in the Life of a Young Man: A True Story in 17 Chapters, Written by Himself and Lithographed by Victor Adam)
Victor Adam · 1824

Chinese Promenade
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

The Retreat
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide
Victor Adam · 19th century

Design for the letter B of a pictorial alphabet: Bienfaisance (Charity)
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Military Festival at Boulogne with Napoleon Distributing Stars of the Legion of Honor
Victor Adam · 19th century

Design for the letter C of a pictorial alphabet: Confession
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Man wearing a cape
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the Letter J of a Pictoral Alphabet: Jupiter
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Man sitting with a dog
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the letter S of a primer: Satan
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

A soldier
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the Letter N of a Pictoral Alphabet: Napoléon
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Soldier leaning on his sword
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the Letter O of a Pictoral Alphabet: Odalisque
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Three men arguing
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Norman Peasants
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

Soldier with a pegleg
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the Letter T of a Pictoral Alphabet: Turk
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Three soldiers in a landscape
Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Design for the Letter E of a Pictoral Alphabet: Etude (Study)
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830
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. 121 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. 46358 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 2026-08-27 23:20 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.