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 McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hortensia
Fernand Khnopff · 1884
Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1871
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66
Nocturne: Blue and Silver--Bognor
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1871-1876
The Yellow Room
James McNeill Whistler · ca. 1883–84
Blue and Emerald: Coal Mine
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1883 or 1884
Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret
James McNeill Whistler · 1883
Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1860-1861
Cremorne Gardens, No. 2
James McNeill Whistler · ca. 1870–80
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1866-ca. 1874
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
William Merritt Chase · 1885
A Violet Note
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1885
Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)
James McNeill Whistler · 1878
Arrangement in Black: Portrait of F. R. Leyland
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1870-1873
Nocturne: Palaces
James McNeill Whistler · 1879–80
The Sea and Sand
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1884
Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul
Vilhelm Hammershøi · 1911
Variations in Flesh Colour and Green - The Balcony
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1864-1870; additions 1870-1879
James McNeill Whistler
Percy Thomas · 1874
Low Tide
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1883-1884
James McNeill Whistler
Percy Thomas · 1874
Portrait of Whistler with a Hat
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1857-1859
James McNeill Whistler
Percy Thomas · 1874
Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1871-1872
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. 662 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 121787 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 2026-09-01 03:51 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.