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. 21 shown for “Ferdinand Barbedienne” — 55 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of candelabra
Maison Ferdinand Barbedienne · ca. 1865–70
The Indian Ghost Dancer
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled 1888-1889
Ewer
Ferdinand Barbedienne · 1875
Walter Griffin
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · ca. 1915-1923
Ferdinand Barbedienne
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu · 1882
Center table
F. Barbedienne Foundry, French, 1838 – 1952 · 1855–60
The Actor Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost
Auguste Préault · 1866
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1841
Cabinet
Maison Barbedienne · 1867
Ferdinand Hayden
Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1880
George Washington
Achille Collas · 1830–83
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
E. R. Morgan · c. 1859
Bowl on stand
Louis-Constant Sévin · ca. 1867
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
Unidentified Artist · c. 1875
Cup with the Triumph of Galatea
Charles-Ludovic Crétineau-Joly · 1863
Ferdinand W. Peck
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898
Victor Hugo
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · late 19th century
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841
Man with a Spade
Jean-François Millet · ca. 1855–58
Deer and Tree Against Sunset
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75
Woman with a Churn
Jean-François Millet · 1854
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 1 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. 4411 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:40 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.