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. 18 shown for “E. & G. W. Blunt” — 62 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Sextant
E. & G. W. Blunt · 1856-1866
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Octant
E. & G. W. Blunt · mid 19th century
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
Nicolas Poussin · 1655
Cydistomyia (Cydistomyia) philipi
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1976 to 17 Oct 1976
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520
Sagittaria cuneata E. Sheld.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1869
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Photograph of E. G. Humphrey wearing a suit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620
Arnoldiella crassa (W. E. Hoffmann & J. E. Tilden) C. Boedeker
Artist not stated in the record
Front Half of a Tournament Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–20
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
Biface, commonly referred to as a hand ax
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400,000–240,000 B.C.
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 3 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. 13577 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 14:19 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.