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 “Hercules” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side Chair
Benjamin Randolph · ca. 1769
Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800
Mountain Valley with a Plateau
Hercules Segers · ca. 1625–30
Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823
Hercules and Antaeus
Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century
Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules
Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587 · 1562
Banjo
Hercules McCord · ca. 1884
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813
Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1550
Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi, Forli.
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1819
Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century
Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · 1542–48
Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century
The Death of Hercules
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48
Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805
Marble statue of a youthful Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · 69–96 CE
Three Deeds of Hercules
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Hercules Fighting the Centaurs
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century
Hercules Abducting Iole
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48
Marble statue of a bearded Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · 68–98 CE
Hercules Killing Cacus
Artist not stated in the record · 1588
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. 498 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 508 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 08:50 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.