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. 21 shown for “Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875” — 33 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor
Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled 1849, cast ca. 1867
Stag, Doe and Two Fawns
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · 1820s
Pair of Nine Light Candelabra with Six Figures, Masks, and Chimeras
Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled ca. 1840, possibly cast between 1857 and 1875
Lion Crushing a Serpent
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · ca. 1830s
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions
Lion Crushing a Serpent
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · ca. 1830s
Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en armoire)
Guillaume Benneman · 1786–87
Two Bears Wrestling
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · by 1833
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Jaguar Devouring a Crocodile
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · ca. 1830s
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784
Seated Lion
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · ca. 1830s
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)
Etienne-Jean Forestier · 1788
Stag
Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century
Tiger Devouring a Gavial (first reduction)
Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled in 1831, probably cast after 1847
La Riviere a la Tour Lointaine
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1913
Tiger in Repose
Antoine-Louis Barye · ca. 1850–65
Captain H.C. Gray Balloon Basket
Artist not stated in the record · 1927
Venus and the Sphinx
Auguste Préault · 1868
Reversible brooch
Alexis Falize · ca. 1869
Roger and Angelica Mounted on a Hippogriff (mouth closed, second version)
Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled ca. 1840, cast ca. 1845-1850
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. 409 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:27 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.