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 “Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin” — 24 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
La Brouette (The Bath Chair) from Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1748
The Toilet (La Toilette), from Essai de Papilloneries Humaines par Saint Aubin
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1756–60
French Theatre (Théatre Français), from Essai de Papilloneries Humaines par Saint Aubin
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1756–60
Italian Theatre (Théatre Italien), from Essai de Papilloneries Humaines par Saint Aubin
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1756–60
L'Art du brodeur
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · 1770
Title page from Essay on Butterflies Masquerading as Humans (Essai de Papilloneries Humaines)
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1756–60
The Duel (Le Duel), from Essay on Butterflies Masquerading as Humans (Essai de Papilloneries Humaines)
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1756–60
Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1766
Cup (tasse à l'étrusque) and saucer
Sèvres Manufactory · 1794
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740
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. 263 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 19:18 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.