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 “La Veuve Hérissant” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Le calendrier de la cour : tiré des ephémérides, pour l'année bissextile mil sept-cent quatre-vingt-quatre : contenant le lieu du soleil, son lever, son coucher, sa déclinaison: le lever de la lune & son coucher, &c. : avec la naissance des rois, reines, princes & princesses de l'Europe imprimé pour la famille royale et maison de sa Majesté
La Veuve Hérissant · 1784
Almanach de Normandie pour l'année bissext. 1788
La Veuve Besongne & Fils · [1787]
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70
Title-page: De la Monarchie du Verbe incarné
Abraham Bosse · 1638
Plate
Veuve Perrin Factory · ca. 1770–75
Cream pot
Veuve Perrin Factory · ca. 1760–70
Le Cannameliste Français, Ou Nouvelle Instruction Pour Ceux Qui Desirent D'Apprendre L'Office, Rédigé en Forme de Dictionnaire
Joseph Gilliers · 1768
Cours d'Architecture ou Traité de la Décoration, Distribution & Construction des Bâtiments (Volume 9)
Jacques François Blondel · 1771–77
Cartouche with Title: Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches
Stefano della Bella · 1647
Cartouche Framed by Ducks and Weeds
Stefano della Bella · 1647
Cartouche Formed by a Tiger Skin Flanked by Two Centaurs
Stefano della Bella · 1647
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. 74 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:33 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.