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 “Lobby card for Imitation of Life” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:09 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.
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400
Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603
Girl
Leonhard Kern · ca. 1635, base possibly late 1830s
"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Mustafa ibn Vali · ca. 1595
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
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. 429 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:09 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.