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. 12 shown for “Head of Hesiod for Cooke's Translation” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl · dated 621 AH/1224 CE
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627
Head of a cat
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child
Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo) · ca. 1530
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100
Standing Vishnu as Keshava
Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century
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. 544 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:29 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.