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 “Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
J. A. M. Whistler
Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927 · 1897
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927 · c. 1900
Ethel Barrymore
Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927 · c. 1900
Helena Rubinstein
Paul César Helleu, 17 Dec 1859 - 23 Mar 1927 · c. 1908
Madracis decactis
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1978
Tamandua mexicana
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1942
Rhizophora mangle L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1927 to 14 Dec 1927
Coendou prehensilis
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1942
Cassipourea elliptica (Sw.) Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1927 to 14 Dec 1927
Cassipourea elliptica (Sw.) Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1927 to 14 Dec 1927
Cassipourea elliptica (Sw.) Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1927 to 14 Dec 1927
Xylosma oligandra Donn. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1927 to 14 Dec 1927
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2625424 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 21:50 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.