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 Gray” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Illustration to the Tempest: Caliban, Ferdinand and Ariel
Charles Gray · 1836
Portrait of a Woman in Gray
Edgar Degas · ca. 1865
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
baron François Gérard · ca. 1804
The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
Charles Nègre · 1858–59
Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
Daniël Mijtens · 1629
Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1880
Seated Bishop
Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1495
Man's coat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
Jewelry Elements
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century
Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1766
Pompeii, Pompey’s Lane, Tomb Monument of Mamia
Firmin-Eugène Le Dien · ca. 1853
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
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. 735 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. 251491 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:28 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.