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. 14 shown for “Joseph van Aken” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
Nathaniel Van Aken
Unidentified · 1850s
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622
Eleocharis obtusa (Willd.) Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1918
Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Half-length portrait study of a wigged man
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Bust-length portrait study of a young woman with a striped shawl
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Half-length portrait study of a young woman with long hair
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Madame Roulin and Her Baby
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century · ca. 1600–40
The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century · ca. 1600–40
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. 822 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 113342 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 03:26 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.