OpenTwo 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 ““Sent girl Susan” stampless folded letter” — 60 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
“Sent girl Susan” stampless folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · April 17, 1850
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Folded Letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1843
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
Official stampless cover with photostat on album page
Artist not stated in the record · June 23, 1948
Two Dancers
Edgar Degas · ca. 1879
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1836
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810
Vermont folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · January 17, 1790
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Letter to General Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 6, 1789
Three Tahitian Women
Paul Gauguin · 1896
Election tally folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · April 2, 1792
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Stampless cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1789-1798
Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk
Paul Cézanne · 1866
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
Letter to Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 14, 1789
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 20, 1853
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1845
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 37797 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 22:18 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.