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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. 23 shown for “Thomas de Leu” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:48 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.
Frontispiece for the Catalogue of the work of Thomas De Leu, by Charles Meryon

Frontispiece for the Catalogue of the work of Thomas De Leu

Charles Meryon · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Elevation geometrale d'un des projets de l'autel de St. Leu de Paris (Design for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 103, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Elevation geometrale d'un des projets de l'autel de St. Leu de Paris (Design for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 103, 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
Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, by Thomas de Leu

Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers

Thomas de Leu · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plans de deux Projets pour l'Autel de St. Leu de Paris (Plans for Two Designs for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 107, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Plans de deux Projets pour l'Autel de St. Leu de Paris (Plans for Two Designs for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 107, 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
Mary, Queen of Scots, by Thomas de Leu

Mary, Queen of Scots

Thomas de Leu · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Projet de l'autel de St. Leu de Paris (Design for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 104, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de l'autel de St. Leu de Paris (Design for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 104, 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
Philip Emanuel de Loraine, by Thomas de Leu

Philip Emanuel de Loraine

Thomas de Leu · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Medicago ovalis (Boiss.) Urb.

Medicago ovalis (Boiss.) Urb.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, attached letter, by Thomas de Leu

Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, attached letter

Thomas de Leu · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs...", by Thomas de Leu

Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs..."

Thomas de Leu · 1614–15

Public domainThe Met
Genista spartioides Spach

Genista spartioides Spach

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1851 to 11 May 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles of Gonzague and of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and of Retellois, Governor of Champagne and Brie at age eighteen, by Thomas de Leu

Charles of Gonzague and of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and of Retellois, Governor of Champagne and Brie at age eighteen

Thomas de Leu · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Abbey Church of St. Leu d’Esserent. (Oise), by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Abbey Church of St. Leu d’Esserent. (Oise)

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise), by Camille Pissarro

The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)

Camille Pissarro · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Dictyopteris plagiogramma

Dictyopteris plagiogramma

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Eurya chinensis R. Br.

Eurya chinensis R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Liagora ceranoides J.V.Lamouroux

Liagora ceranoides J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevis.

Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevis.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1897

Public domainThe Met
Ulva reticulata Forssk.

Ulva reticulata Forssk.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1988

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. 2000 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 723851 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-29 00:48 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.