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. 21 shown for “Orpheus Painter” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Orpheus Painter · ca. 430 BCE
Orpheus Among the Muses; Orpheus Playing the Lyre
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810
The Orpheus Cup
Jan Vermeyen · 1641–42, the jeweled elements on the lid in the form of animals, amorini holding bow and quiver, and the statuettes of Orpheus and Diana, Prague, ca.1600
Fusus orpheus
Artist not stated in the record
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Brygos Painter · ca. 480–470 BCE
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of London E 497 · ca. 440 BCE
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1928
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1934
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life
James Barry · plate dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1899
Orpheus and Eurydice
Nicolas Poussin
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Biagio d'Antonio
Lekythos
Bowdoin Painter · ca. 480 BCE
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1927
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465
A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc.
James Barry · dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792
Mimus polyglottos orpheus
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1866
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 13142 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-02 18:03 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.