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. 19 shown for “James Wells Champney” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
River Scene in England
James Wells Champney
Minimic
James Wells Champney, 1843 - 1903 · c. 1878
Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93
The Letter (Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colgate)
James Wells Champney, born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1903 · 1881
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
Sketch of Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
The Bryant Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1876
Female Nude, Resting on Grass
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle)
James Jebusa Shannon · 1895
Standing Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Plate
James and Ralph Clews · ca. 1824–34
Studies of Putti
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Standing Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Sketch of Woman in Period Costume
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
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. 3438 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 140807 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 11:34 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.