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 “Aurora: Landscape at Dawn” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Aurora: Landscape at Dawn
Artist not stated in the record · 1613
Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688
Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont
Dupont, Edgar · 1871
Landscape with Ducks
Charles-François Daubigny · 1872
Scout Planes at Dawn
Kerr Eby, born Tokyo, Japan 1889-died Norwalk, CT 1946 · 1928
Apollo and Aurora
Gerard de Lairesse · 1671
Aurora over the Hudson Valley, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 23, 1864
Sardonyx cameo of Aurora driving her chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Allegorical Scene with Aurora
Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44
Fortified Wall at Tivoli
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806
Aurora, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860
Cloudy Peaks at Dawn
Zhu Angzhi · 1822
Aurora Borealis over Mt. Desert Island, from Bar Harbor, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860
Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE
Aurora over Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860
The Chariot of Aurora
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Housetops at Dawn, 10th Street, New York, NY
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–70
Spring Dawn over the Elixir Terrace
Lu Guang · ca. 1369
Village on the Río Magdalena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1853
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Aurora Borealis
Frederic Edwin Church, born Hartford, CT 1826-died New York City 1900 · 1865
View of the Kamo River from Sanbogi at Dawn
Oda Kaisen · 1829
Aurora Sketch, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860
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. 182 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. 288623 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-03 11:38 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.