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 “Ambrosius Benson” — 55 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Lamentation
Ambrosius Benson · ca. 1520–25
Ambrosi Gesner
Artist not stated in the record
Man Weighing Gold
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20
Alchemilla alpina L.
Artist not stated in the record
The Lamentation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1450
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 1911
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
Poseidonamicus riograndensis Benson in Benson & Peypouquet, 1983
Artist not stated in the record
The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1885
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan Sanders van Hemessen · early 17th century
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1919
The Crucifixion
Gerard David · ca. 1495
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 1911
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · 1480–85
Ranunculus hexasepalus (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 1900
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
Gerard David · ca. 1500
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 1911
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1915
The Nativity
Gerard David · early 1480s
Haplophyton crooksii (L.D. Benson) L.D. Benson
Artist not stated in the record
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 5445 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 09:54 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.