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. 10 shown for “Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929” — 11 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 04:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Musa Regina
Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929 · 1904
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Eros et Musa
Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929 · 1903
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Edgar Degas · 1871
Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son
Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929 · 1895
Dancers, Pink and Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1890
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
The Singer in Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1884
Study of a Nude Man
Gustave Courbet · early 1840s
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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 04:40 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.