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. 24 shown for “Figure of a seated musician” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century
Fantastical Garden with Musicians
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49
Figure of a seated musician
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
Figure of a Beggar Playing a Hurdy-Gurdy
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1735–1740
Figure of a seated musician clapping hands
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
Six of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
Seated figure
Middle Niger artist · 13th century
Design for a Decorative Panel
François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788
Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Stage Design: A Banquet Hall
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · 1740–44
Seated Musician
Artist not stated in the record
Untitled (Seated Figures and Musicians)
Howard Russell Butler, born New York City 1856-died Princeton, NJ 1934
Seated ballplayer
Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE
Camel and Seated Figure
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January - May 1868
Marble seated harp player
Artist not stated in the record · 2800–2700 BCE
Botanical Studies with a Seated Figure, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably May 1857
Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE
Piano bench owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962
Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755
Figural Group of a Cherub and a Seated Lady
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century
Seated Bishop
Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1495
Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49
Female musician
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century
Figure Sketches by the Surf, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858
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. 2796 matched · 24 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. 3857805 matched · 40 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:49 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.