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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 “Woman Dispensing Poison from the Legend of Saint Germain of Paris” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:07 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.
Woman Dispensing Poison from the Legend of Saint Germain of Paris

Woman Dispensing Poison from the Legend of Saint Germain of Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vision of Saint Germain of Paris

Vision of Saint Germain of Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
ART DU BRODEUR, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

ART DU BRODEUR

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
ART DU BRODEUR, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

ART DU BRODEUR

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
St. GERMAIN EN LAYE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

St. GERMAIN EN LAYE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1669–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Saint Germain-des-Prés, Paris, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Saint Germain-des-Prés, Paris

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Le Louvre Colonnade, Facing Saint Germain, Plate 39 of Vues Pittoresques de Principaux édifices de Paris, by Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

Le Louvre Colonnade, Facing Saint Germain, Plate 39 of Vues Pittoresques de Principaux édifices de Paris

Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Vue du Chateau de St. Germain en Laye (View of Saint Germain-en-Laye Palace), by Chez Daumont, active 18th century

Vue du Chateau de St. Germain en Laye (View of Saint Germain-en-Laye Palace)

Chez Daumont, active 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1740-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
LE CHÂTEAU NEUF DE ST GERMAIN EN LAYE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHÂTEAU NEUF DE ST GERMAIN EN LAYE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Veuë du Chateau neuf de St. Germain en Laye, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Veuë du Chateau neuf de St. Germain en Laye

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1660–1703

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
CHAPELLE DE SAINTE MARGUERITE., by Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740

CHAPELLE DE SAINTE MARGUERITE.

Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740 · 1705-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
St. GERMAIN EN LAYE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

St. GERMAIN EN LAYE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th 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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3102074 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-07 08:07 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.