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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 “Le Tombeau de Voltaire” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque piéce, par M. Bret, by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque piéce, par M. Bret

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Le Tombeau de Voltaire, by Dubern & Cie.

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Dubern & Cie. · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Le Triomphe de Voltaire, by Manufacture de Dubern & Comp. a Nantes

Le Triomphe de Voltaire

Manufacture de Dubern & Comp. a Nantes · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Plan de la Chapelle ou est representé le tombeau de Monsieur le Duc de Montmorency, fait p Monsr. Anguér, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan de la Chapelle ou est representé le tombeau de Monsieur le Duc de Montmorency, fait p Monsr. Anguér

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), by Jean-Baptiste Nini

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778)

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella parkeri (Hook. & Grev.) Spring

Selaginella parkeri (Hook. & Grev.) Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella parkeri (Hook. & Grev.) Spring

Selaginella parkeri (Hook. & Grev.) Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tombeau de Sidi-Ambarek, à Garara, by Maxime Du Camp

Tombeau de Sidi-Ambarek, à Garara

Maxime Du Camp · June 19, 1850

Public domainThe Met
Tombeau de Mr. le Duc de Longueville aux Celestins, by François Anguier, French, 1604–1669

Tombeau de Mr. le Duc de Longueville aux Celestins

François Anguier, French, 1604–1669 · 1661-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tombeau de Hadji-Abdallah-el-Marabout, à Herment, by Maxime Du Camp

Tombeau de Hadji-Abdallah-el-Marabout, à Herment

Maxime Du Camp · 1849–50

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Christ sortant du tombeau, by Gustave Doré

Le Christ sortant du tombeau

Gustave Doré · 1850–83

Public domainThe Met
Projet d'un Tombeau fait pour Mr. le President de la * * * * * à Dijon en 1733 (Design for a Tomb for President * * * * * in Dijon in 1733), plate 99, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet d'un Tombeau fait pour Mr. le President de la * * * * * à Dijon en 1733 (Design for a Tomb for President * * * * * in Dijon in 1733), plate 99, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Translation de Voltaire au Panthéon Français, by Simon Charles Miger

Translation de Voltaire au Panthéon Français

Simon Charles Miger · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Sécrétaire à Tombeau, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Sécrétaire à Tombeau

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
84. Tombeau du Sultan Tarabey, by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

84. Tombeau du Sultan Tarabey

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy, by Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy

Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Béni-Haçan, Architecture Hypogéene - Tombeau d'Amoneï, by Félix Teynard

Béni-Haçan, Architecture Hypogéene - Tombeau d'Amoneï

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Lit a tombeau antique avec doublure retrousse a quatre colonnes vue par le pied, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit a tombeau antique avec doublure retrousse a quatre colonnes vue par le pied

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

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. 86 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. 629678 matched · 40 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.