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. 17 shown for “Paul Ranson” — 45 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle
Paul Ranson · ca. 1895
Trophy with Implements of Outdoor Sports, Plate 5 from "Cahier d'Attributs et Trophées de l'Oeuvre de Ranson," Suite XXI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778
Tiger in the Jungle, from "L'Estampe Originale"
Paul Ranson · 1893
Ier CAHIER DE CHIFFRES Inventés par Ranson
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · ca. 1780
Design for Oval Cartouche
Gautier d'Agoty · 18th century
OEUVRES CONTENANT UN RECUEIL DE TROPHÉES, ATTRIBUTS, CARTOUCHES, VASES, FLEURS ORNEMENS Et plusieurs Desseins agréables pour broder des Fauteuils; Composés et dessinés par Ranson, et graves par Berthaut et Voysard
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778
Still Life
Paul Gauguin
Designs for Tapestry Chair Seats, Plate 2 from "Cahier de Cartouches et Ornemens de l'Oeuvre de Ranson"
Artist not stated in the record · 1778
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
NOUVEAU LIVRES DE VASES PAR le Sieur Ranson Peintre Decorateur
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Designs for Tapestry Chair Seats, Plate 1 from "Cahier de Cartouches et Ornemens de l'Oeuvre de Ranson"
Artist not stated in the record · 1778
Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs
Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850 · 18th–early 19th century
Album of Decorative Panels, Trophies, and Monogram Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1773–90
Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1941
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Trophies with Historical Attributes
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · ca. 1780
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 132815 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-26 20:51 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.