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 “Illustration for Hamlet: The Death of Polonius (III,4)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:12 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.
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85
The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Hamlet and His Mother
Eugène Delacroix · 1849
The Adoration of the Shepherds
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10
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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 02:12 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.