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 “Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909” — 42 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
St. Joseph (Missouri)
Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517
Nauvoo (Mississippi)
Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855
Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550)
Barthel Beham · 1527
Miles City, Montana
Hermann Stieffel, born Wiesbaden, Germany 1826-died Washington, DC 1886 · 1879
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70
Fort Keogh, Montana Territory
Hermann Stieffel, born Wiesbaden, Germany 1826-died Washington, DC 1886 · ca. 1877-1881
Virgin and Child with Angels
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518
Attack on General Marcy's Train
Hermann Stieffel, born Wiesbaden, Germany 1826-died Washington, DC 1886 · 1867
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The Yellowstone River near Ft. Keogh, Montana
Hermann Stieffel, born Wiesbaden, Germany 1826-died Washington, DC 1886 · ca. 1877-1881
Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640
Rattenberg, Tyrol
Hermann Stieffel, born Wiesbaden, Germany 1826-died Washington, DC 1886 · ca. 1858-1882
Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome
Karl Theodor von Piloty · ca. 1875
Barn Swallow
Julius Bien, born Naumberg, Germany 1826-died 1909 · 1860
A Young Woman as a Shepherdess
Govert Flinck
Yellow-Breasted Chat
Julius Bien, born Naumberg, Germany 1826-died 1909 · 1860
The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Julius Bien, born Naumberg, Germany 1826-died 1909 · 1860
Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
Great White Heron
Julius Bien, born Naumberg, Germany 1826-died 1909 · 1860
A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57
Cliff Swallows
Julius Bien, born Naumberg, Germany 1826-died 1909 · 1860
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. 26 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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 23:52 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.