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 “Charles Victor Hugo” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Victor Hugo
Charles Victor Hugo · 1852
Portrait of Victor Hugo
Auguste Rodin, 1840 – 1917 · 1885
Auguste Vacquerie
Charles Victor Hugo · 1853–56
Renealmia petasites Gagnep.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1989
Marine Terrace
Charles Victor Hugo · October 9, 1855
Dr. Hugo Eckener Die Proof Presentation Booklet
Artist not stated in the record · April 16, 1930
![[Auguste Vacquerie at Marine Terrace], by Charles Victor Hugo](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP275735.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Auguste Vacquerie at Marine Terrace]
Charles Victor Hugo · 1855
Esmeralda
Raffaelo Romanelli, Italian, born Florence, Italy 1856-died Florence, Italy 1928 · ca. 1870-1900
Souvenir of a Castle in Vosges
Victor Hugo · 1857
Jean-Victor Moreau
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808
Portrait of an Old Man
Hugo van der Goes · ca. 1470–75
Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1907
In Honor of Victor Hugo, Novelist
Jules-Clément Chaplain · 1885
Our Colored Troops--The Line Officers of the First Louisiana Native Guards
John R. Hamilton, c. 1823 - 1874 · 1863
Nôtre Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo · 1877
Leucocrinum montanum Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1905
Portrait of a Man
Hugo van der Goes · ca. 1475
Chaffy Limpet, Chaffy Limpet
Artist not stated in the record · 1959
Study of a Female Nude
Henri Lehmann · 1840
Penstemon caudatus A. Heller
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1905
Victor Hugo
Honoré Daumier · July 20, 1849
Penstemon angustifolius Nutt. ex Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1906
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740
Mentzelia stricta (Osterh.) Stevens ex Jeffs & Little
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1905
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. 459 matched · 24 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. 160025 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 13:20 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.