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. 20 shown for “Esther before Ahasverus” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s
Esther before Ahasverus
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1658
Esther before Ahasverus
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soldiers
Gaetano Lazzara, Italian, d. ca. 1730 · 1703
Esther before Ahasuerus
Anonymous, French, 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century
Queen Esther and Ahasuerus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770
Esther Before Ahasuerus
Lucas van Leyden · 1518
Figure Praying before Shrine of Christ
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon, Scottish, born Aberdeen, Scotland 1884-died Banchory, Scotland 1934 · 1925
Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · before 1867
Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Esther Pleading Before Ahasuerus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540–60
The Reeling of Silk
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595
The Story of Esther
Marco del Buono Giamberti
Esther Chamberlain
Zaida Ben-Yusuf, 21 Nov 1869 - 27 Sep 1933 · c. 1908
Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12)
Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615
Untitled
Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858
Ramesseum, Thebes (201. Thèbes. 1844. 202 Rhamséion.)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1844
Temple of Bacchus, Athens (53. Athènes. 1842. Temple de Bacchus)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1842
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. 177 matched · 24 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. 14617 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 01:47 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.