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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 “Denis Diderot” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:12 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.
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Joseph-François Domard, French, 1792 - 1858

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Joseph-François Domard, French, 1792 - 1858 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication, by Denis Diderot

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

Denis Diderot · 1762–72

Public domainThe Met
Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie", by Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie"

Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1751–1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Planches pour l'Encyclopédie, ou pour le Dictionaire raisonné des sciences, des arts libéraux, et des arts méchaniques, avec leur explication, by Denis Diderot

Planches pour l'Encyclopédie, ou pour le Dictionaire raisonné des sciences, des arts libéraux, et des arts méchaniques, avec leur explication

Denis Diderot · 1765–1776

Public domainThe Met
Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie", by Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie"

Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1751–1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, by Denis Diderot

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers

Denis Diderot · 1751–65

Public domainThe Met
Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie", by Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie"

Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1750–1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres, by Denis Diderot

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres

Denis Diderot · 1758–1771

Public domainThe Met
Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie", by Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's "Encyclopédie"

Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · ca. 1751–1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Denis Diderot, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Portrait of Denis Diderot

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Couturiere, from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Couturiere, from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les oeuvres morales de Mr. Diderot : contenant son traité De l'amitié, et celui Des passions, by Marie Geneviève Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d'Arconville

Les oeuvres morales de Mr. Diderot : contenant son traité De l'amitié, et celui Des passions

Marie Geneviève Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d'Arconville · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. X from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. X from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. XIII from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. XIII from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch of the Messenger, by François Boucher

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. XVIII from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. XVIII from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Istruzione elementare per gli studiosi della scultura, by Francesco Carradori

Istruzione elementare per gli studiosi della scultura

Francesco Carradori · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. XVI from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. XVI from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fourbisseur (Swordmaking) (plate VII, Fourbisseur section, Encyclopédie, or Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Mechaniques..., vol. IV), by J. R. Lucotte

Fourbisseur (Swordmaking) (plate VII, Fourbisseur section, Encyclopédie, or Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Mechaniques..., vol. IV)

J. R. Lucotte · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. VI from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. VI from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoulao, by Chantilly

Shoulao

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Sellier-Carossier, pl. XIV from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. XIV from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

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. 37 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. 853 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-26 22:12 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.