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 Madison” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
James Madison
Johann Mathias Reich · 1801
James Madison
Unidentified Artist · 1796
Token of James Madison
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876
James Madison
Unidentified Artist · c. 1801
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be James Madison (1751–1836)
Annibal Christian Loutherbourg · 1795
James Madison
Unidentified Artist · c. 1801-10
Governor George Clinton
John Ramage · ca. 1785
James Madison
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1911
Side Chair
John Finlay · 1815–20
James Madison
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828
George Washington
Giuseppe Ceracchi · 1795
James Madison
John Reich, 1768 - 1833 · 1809 (struck 1814-15)
Side Chair
John Finlay · 1815–20
James Madison
David Edwin, 1776 - 1841 · 1810
James Madison, from the Presidents of the United States series (N51) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1885–89
James Madison
Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1840
Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530–40
James Madison
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828
Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
James Madison
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1809
James Buchanan, from the Presidents of the United States series (N51) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1885–89
James Madison Broom
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807
James A. Garfield, from the Presidents of the United States series (N51) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1885–89
James Madison Porter
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1843
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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 126692 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 20:26 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.