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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Serinette
Ch. Denis · ca. 1800

Ruth St. Denis
Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1 Sep 1868 - 6 Jan 1946 · 1918

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765

Ruth St. Denis
Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · 1942

Aurora and Cephalus
François Boucher · mid-18th century

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

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Battle of Porte St. Denis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1767–69

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

Plate 30: Robert Macaire before his judges, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
Honoré Daumier · 1838

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

Route de Poissy
Louis Philibert Debucourt · 1816

LA PORTE ST. DENIS
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1672–1703

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60
Dalechampia chlorocephala Denis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1929

Invitation to Reclusion at Jingxi
Dong Qichang · 1611
Uapaca littoralis Denis
Artist not stated in the record · 2000 to 2007

The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824
Euphorbia didiereoides Denis ex Leandri
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1933

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Regis De Trobriand
Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900 · 1850

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801
Uapaca littoralis Denis
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 2013
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.