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 “Albert Bierstadt, born Solingen, Germany 1830-died New York City 1902” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:54 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.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Albert Bierstadt · 1863
Merced River, Yosemite Valley
Albert Bierstadt · 1866
Study of a Tree
Albert Bierstadt · ca. 1864
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68
Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)
Auguste Renoir · 1914
Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496
Roses
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Portrait of a Man
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470
The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449
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. 25 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 04:54 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.