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 “James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nocturne: Palaces
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
Whistler with White Lock
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1879
Lobster Pots (Lobster Pots – Selsea Bill)
James McNeill Whistler · [1880–81]
J. A. M. Whistler Self-Portrait
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1858
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66
J. A. M. Whistler
Frederick Francis Foottet, 1850 - 1935 · c. 1880-90
Whistler with the White Lock
James McNeill Whistler · 1879
J. A. M. Whistler
Giovanni Boldini, 1842 - 1931 · 1897
Glass Furnace: Murano (Murano – Glass Furnace)
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
Thomas Robert Way, 1861 - 1913 · c. 1900
The Rialto
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
Mortimer Menpes, 22 Feb 1855 - 1 Apr 1938 · 1900
The Balcony
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927 · 1897
The Bridge, Santa Marta
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
Annie Harriet Haden
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1858
Nocturne: Palaces
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1916
San Giorgio
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
London Stereoscopic Co., active 1854 - c. 1902 · c. 1870
Wheelwright
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
J. A. M. Whistler
Alfred Bryan, 1852 - 1899 · 1883
The Riva, No. 2
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
Firelight: Joseph Pennell No. 1
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1896
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. 152 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. 2836431 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 20:08 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.