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 “Francis Legat” — 48 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 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.
King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)
Francis Legat · August 1, 1792
Letter to the parents of David Hoyt from James F. Legate
James F. Legate, American, 1829 - 1902 · September 11, 1856
Cassandra Raving (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2)
Francis Legat · first published 1795; reissued 1852
United States Legation, Guatemala
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877
Cassandra Raving (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2)
Francis Legat · first published 1795; reissued 1852
Celtis bungeana Blume
Artist not stated in the record · 1909
Madonna and Child with Saints
Ludovico Carracci · 1607
Brugmansia aurea Lagerh.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1918 to 1 Nov 1918
Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566
Verbascum phlomoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1927
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci
Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1919
Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23
Plantago depressa Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1919
The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27
Betula pendula Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1925
Pouteria domingensis (C.F. Gaertn.) Baehni
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1933
Recto: Two Friezes with Flowers Verso: Sketch for a Decorative Painting
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815
Napoleonic Italy album page with folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1808
Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy
Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1780
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 71243 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-01 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.