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 “Cow and Two Sheep at the Foot of a Tree” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
Cow and Two Sheep at the Foot of a Tree
Artist not stated in the record · 1670
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1900
Coffin of Khnumnakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.
Two Shepherdesses in a Landscape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · after 1751
Mummy Board of Iineferty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1825
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Autumn Vignettes, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865
Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (Fourth State)
Edgar Degas · modeled before ca. 1895–1900, cast 1920
Trees and a Cow, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844, May 1845, and July 1845
Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30
Clouds
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1848
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century
Landscape (after Claude Lorrain)
Charles Francois Daubigny, 1817-1878 · 1849
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Mill by a Stream, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and October 1844
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Cows and Horsemen Cross a Bridge Over a Canal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650
The Antioch "Chalice"
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550
A Little Shepherdess
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1740–45
View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer
Jan van Goyen · 1646
Rocaille Ornament Design
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736
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. 2572 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 4166277 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.