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. 12 shown for “Carte-de-visite of Preston Taylor as a drummer with the 116th USCT” — 14 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:53 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 Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35
Carte-de-visite of Preston Taylor as a drummer with the 116th USCT
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874
The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome
François Marius Granet · 1814–15
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory
Paul Cézanne · 1891
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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:53 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.