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 “Henry Louis Stephens, American, 1821 - 1886” — 62 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823
The Sale
Henry Louis Stephens, American, 1821 - 1886 · ca. 1863
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Henry Louis Stephens
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
The Hen That Hatched This Egg
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up
Louis Maurer · 1860
Giraffe
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
The Singer in Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1884
Political Gymnasium
Louis Maurer, 1832 - 1932 · 1860
"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother
Louis Maurer · 1860
Henry Wager Halleck
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862
The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball
Louis Maurer · 1860
The Comic Natural History of the Human Race
Henry Louis Stephens, 1824 - 1882 · 1851
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70
George Brinton McClellan
Chapin & Stephens · 1861
1807, Friedland
Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862
Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823
Henry Wikoff
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)
Georges Seurat · 1882–83
Henry Ward Beecher
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862
Young Woman (La Servante)
Auguste Renoir · ca. 1875
Henry Kirke Brown
Louis Lang, 29 Mar 1814 - 6 May 1893 · 1863
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 2 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. 1162873 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-06 19:14 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.