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 “Cabinet card of an unidentified man in a suit and tie” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
Cabinet card of an unidentified man in a suit and tie
Artist not stated in the record · 1884-1907
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Cabinet card of an unidentified man standing next to a chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire
Peter Langlois · 1764
Postcard of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1929
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Cabinet card studio portrait of a man standing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1896
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Cabinet card of an unidentified man wearing an overcoat and holding a hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1895
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1903
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Cabinet card of an unidentified man with a mustache by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Cabinet card of an unidentified seated man with a beard by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
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. 85 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7484958 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 08:23 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.