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. 12 shown for “Jules Cheret, French, born Paris, France 1836-died Nice, France 1932” — 25 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:47 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
The Clown
Jules Cheret, French, born Paris, France 1836-died Nice, France 1932 · 1915
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787
Cows Crossing a Ford
Jules Dupré · 1836
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Napoléon III (1808–1873), Emperor of the French
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1873
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Hagar in the Wilderness
Camille Corot · 1835
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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 21:47 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.