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. 15 shown for “Ossie Davis, American, 1917 - 2005” — 63 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Flyer Promoting a Rally for Angela Davis Day
Third World Women's Alliance, American, 1968 - 1980 · September 1971
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Flyer Advertising an Evening with Angela Davis
The Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, American, founded 1972 · July 1972
Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870
Theatre program for Ballad for Bimshire
Ossie Davis, American, 1917 - 2005 · 1963
Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas · 1877
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass
Edgar Degas · ca. 1882–85
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Edgar Degas · 1871
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872
Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400
Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1400–1409
Box with scenes from the Romance, "The Chatelaine of Vergy"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40
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. 23 matched · 23 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. 1090536 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 20:19 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.