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. 12 shown for “A Couple Seated on a Bed” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Seated couple
"Barnes Foundation Master" · 18th–early 19th century
State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698
Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490
Hazomanga finial
Sakalava artist · 17th–late 18th century
Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Seated ballplayer
Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE
Marble seated harp player
Artist not stated in the record · 2800–2700 BCE
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670
Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1782–83
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Portrait of Napoleon I
baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11
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. 5941 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:57 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.