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. 15 shown for “Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
Carte de visite of Sgt. Jacob Johns (19th USCT)
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1867
Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670
Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1633
Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642
John Jacob Astor
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1825
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520
Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
Jacob Sacrificing After Making a Covenant with Laban from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
Laban Looking for the Images and Making a Covenant with Jacob from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75
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. 51 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. 3434265 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 18:07 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.