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 “Edgar Degas, 19 Jul 1834 - 27 Sep 1917” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:08 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.
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
The Dance Lesson
Edgar Degas · ca. 1879
The Singer in Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1884
Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882
The Dancing Class
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866
Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas · 1877
Dancer in Ukrainian Dress
Edgar Degas · 1899
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
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. 74 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:08 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.