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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 “Denis de Sainte-Marthe” — 52 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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.
Réponse aux plaintes des protestans touchant la prétendüe persecution de France. : Où l'on expose le sentiment de Calvin, & de tous les plus célebres ministres, sur les peines dûës aux hérétiques. On découves aussi plusieurs particularitez dignes d'être sçûës, touchant la Réformation & les réformateurs, by Denis de Sainte-Marthe

Réponse aux plaintes des protestans touchant la prétendüe persecution de France. : Où l'on expose le sentiment de Calvin, & de tous les plus célebres ministres, sur les peines dûës aux hérétiques. On découves aussi plusieurs particularitez dignes d'être sçûës, touchant la Réformation & les réformateurs

Denis de Sainte-Marthe · 1688

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
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

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
Fortified Wall at Tivoli, by Simon Denis

Fortified Wall at Tivoli

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Public domainThe Met
Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome, by Simon Denis

View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome

Simon Denis · 1800

Public domainThe Met
Les Monuments de Paris, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Les Monuments de Paris

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1816–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloud Study (Early Evening), by Simon Denis

Cloud Study (Early Evening)

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Public domainThe Met
Pityrogramma calomelanos (L.) Link

Pityrogramma calomelanos (L.) Link

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Dec 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tumbler, by Denis Colombier

Tumbler

Denis Colombier · 1789

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
Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli, by Simon Denis

Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–97

Public domainThe Met
Crepis tectorum L.

Crepis tectorum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro, by Simon Denis

Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–97

Public domainThe Met
Charianthus corymbosus (Rich.) Cogn.

Charianthus corymbosus (Rich.) Cogn.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloud Study (Distant Storm), by Simon Denis

Cloud Study (Distant Storm)

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Public domainThe Met
Daphnopsis americana subsp. caribaea (Griseb.) Nevling

Daphnopsis americana subsp. caribaea (Griseb.) Nevling

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1937 or 9 Dec 1937

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
Dioscorea polygonoides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Dioscorea polygonoides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1942

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
Mickelia nicotianifolia (Sw.) R.C. Moran et al.

Mickelia nicotianifolia (Sw.) R.C. Moran et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1885 to Dec 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Piper amalago L.

Piper amalago L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2018

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. 741 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 28 matched · 28 examined · 4 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.