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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. 24 shown for “Battle of Porte St. Denis” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:42 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.
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Battle of Porte St. Denis

Battle of Porte St. Denis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
LA PORTE ST. DENIS, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PORTE ST. DENIS

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1672–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Porte St. Denis, Plate 72 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris", by Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

Porte St. Denis, Plate 72 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"

Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie, by Joseph Vernet

Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
FONTAINE DE LA PORTE ST. DENIS / FONTAINE DE LA CHARITÉ / FONTAINE DES PETITS PERES NOIRS, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

FONTAINE DE LA PORTE ST. DENIS / FONTAINE DE LA CHARITÉ / FONTAINE DES PETITS PERES NOIRS

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Porte St. Denis, by Frank Edwin Scott, born Buffalo, NY 1863-died Paris, France 1929

Porte St. Denis

Frank Edwin Scott, born Buffalo, NY 1863-died Paris, France 1929 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
View of the Opera in Paris

View of the Opera in Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Textile Design: Les Monuments de Paris (The Monuments of Paris), by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Textile Design: Les Monuments de Paris (The Monuments of Paris)

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene of Military Life: A General Giving Orders, by Charles Parrocel

Scene of Military Life: A General Giving Orders

Charles Parrocel · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Ruth St. Denis, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Ruth St. Denis

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Amour a L'Espagnole, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

L'Amour a L'Espagnole

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Ruth St. Denis, by Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1 Sep 1868 - 6 Jan 1946

Ruth St. Denis

Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1 Sep 1868 - 6 Jan 1946 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
Ruth St. Denis, by Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934

Ruth St. Denis

Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Amour a L'Espagnole, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

L'Amour a L'Espagnole

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
La Sepulture du Roy Francois Premier à St. Denis, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

La Sepulture du Roy Francois Premier à St. Denis

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Plan de la sepulture du Roy Francois Premier à St. Denis, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan de la sepulture du Roy Francois Premier à St. Denis

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2947325 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-08 17:42 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.