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 “Death” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:41 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.
Death
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
Death
Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian · 19th century
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Shiva as Mrityunjaya, the Conquerer of Death
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484
The Death of Harmonia
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1740–41
Death of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1500
The Death of Munrow
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30
The Death of Cleopatra
Guido Cagnacci · ca. 1645–55
The Dance of Death
Anonymous, German, 16th century · 16th century
Death
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · 1845–60
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. 23331 matched · 24 examined · 5 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 13:41 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.