OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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 “Ch. Denis” — 62 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:03 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.
Serinette, by Ch. Denis

Serinette

Ch. Denis · ca. 1800

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
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

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
Aurora and Cephalus, by François Boucher

Aurora and Cephalus

François Boucher · mid-18th century

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
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

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
Aegina Visited by Jupiter, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1767–69

Public domainThe Met
Denis A. Volozan, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Denis A. Volozan

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 30: Robert Macaire before his judges, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires, by Honoré Daumier

Plate 30: Robert Macaire before his judges, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Denis Nicholas Cottineau, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Denis Nicholas Cottineau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Route de Poissy, by Louis Philibert Debucourt

Route de Poissy

Louis Philibert Debucourt · 1816

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 Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Dalechampia chlorocephala Denis

Dalechampia chlorocephala Denis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Invitation to Reclusion at Jingxi, by Dong Qichang

Invitation to Reclusion at Jingxi

Dong Qichang · 1611

Public domainThe Met
Uapaca littoralis Denis

Uapaca littoralis Denis

Artist not stated in the record · 2000 to 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia didiereoides Denis ex Leandri

Euphorbia didiereoides Denis ex Leandri

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Regis De Trobriand, by Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900

Regis De Trobriand

Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Uapaca littoralis Denis

Uapaca littoralis Denis

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 2013

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 5250 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:03 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.