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. 24 shown for “Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869” — 60 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449
Sarah Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1864
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69
Sarah Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1865
The Massacre of the Innocents
François Joseph Navez · 1824
Sarah Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1865
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860
The Experts
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · 1837
Sarah Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1865
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Kate and Sarah Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869
Panorama of Niagara Falls
W. & F. Langenheim · July 1845
Alexandra
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1863
Sir David Brewster
Hill and Adamson · ca. 1844
George Brown Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1864
Frederick Langenheim
W. & F. Langenheim · ca. 1848–50
John Ellis Wool
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1862
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641
Charles Loring Elliott
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Jessie Benton Frémont
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1861
The Finding of Moses
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · 1560s?
William Cullen Bryant
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 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. 1091535 matched · 40 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 03:46 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.