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 “Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds” — 56 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70
Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds
Artist not stated in the record · January 15, 1806
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Bill of sale for a 15-year-old girl named Sarah to Robert Watson
Artist not stated in the record · March 30, 1836
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Bill of sale for Charlotte and her daughter Kate to John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · September 26, 1805
A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755
Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack
Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829 · January 22, 1785
Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873
Bill of sale for Sam purchased by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · January 14, 1800
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Bill of sale for a 23-year-old woman named Rachel to Robert Watson
Artist not stated in the record · April 2, 1836
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Bill of sale for a 17 year old girl named Mary
Artist not stated in the record · December 30, 1836
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Bill of sale for Hannah and her children, Clarinda and Stephen
Artist not stated in the record · March 3, 1800
Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63
Bill of sale for a 16-year-old girl named Polly
H. B. Boston · December 23, 1835; modified 1851
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Bill of sale for Flora, a woman enslaved in Connecticut
Artist not stated in the record · December 13, 1796
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Bill of sale for 7-year-old Peter from Martha Avery to Luther Smith
Artist not stated in the record · February 20, 1782; reworked 1869
The Dance
Hubert Robert · 1777–79
Bahamian bill of sale for enslaved individuals, Trim and Flora
Artist not stated in the record · February 8, 1799
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. 16 matched · 16 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. 7474889 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-04 22:57 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.