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. 18 shown for “John White Alexander, born Allegheny, PA 1856-died New York City 1915” — 31 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Repose
John White Alexander · 1895
Skull
John White Alexander, born Allegheny, PA 1856-died New York City 1915 · ca. 1890
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
June
John White Alexander, born Allegheny, PA 1856-died New York City 1915 · ca. 1911
Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750
A Toiler
John White Alexander, born Allegheny, PA 1856-died New York City 1915 · ca. 1898
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
A Flower
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Landscape, Cornish, N.H.
John White Alexander, born Allegheny, PA 1856-died New York City 1915 · ca. 1890
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
The Quiet Hour
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1903
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882
Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon
Camille Pissarro · 1899
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
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577
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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 18:31 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.