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 “Document for tax exemption of the enslaved man Benjamin, owned by Edward Rouzee” — 56 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bust-Length Study of a Man
François-Auguste Biard · 1848
Document for tax exemption of the enslaved man Benjamin, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · July 21, 1806
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · September 27, 1810
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 13, 1830
Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 1, 1828
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · September 1803
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 27, 1808
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 20, 1827
Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant
Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · 1824
Portrait of a Man
Jan Gossart (called Mabuse) · ca. 1520–25
Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 18, 1819
The Cellier Altarpiece
Jean Bellegambe · 1511–12
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1825
The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14
Record of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 27, 1813
Bellona
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 22, 1829
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 4 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. 3256436 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 00:58 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.