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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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

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

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

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

Fortified Wall at Tivoli
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806
Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome
Simon Denis · 1800

Les Monuments de Paris
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1816–20

Cloud Study (Early Evening)
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Pityrogramma calomelanos (L.) Link
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Dec 1969

Tumbler
Denis Colombier · 1789

Textile Design: Les Monuments de Paris (The Monuments of Paris)
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–15

Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–97

Crepis tectorum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1894

Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–97

Charianthus corymbosus (Rich.) Cogn.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1940

Cloud Study (Distant Storm)
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Daphnopsis americana subsp. caribaea (Griseb.) Nevling
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1937 or 9 Dec 1937

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Dioscorea polygonoides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1942

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication
Denis Diderot · 1762–72

Mickelia nicotianifolia (Sw.) R.C. Moran et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1885 to Dec 1885

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Piper amalago L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2018
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.