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. 20 shown for “Photographic postcard of Julis Graham and wife” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Photographic postcard of Julis Graham and wife
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1913
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Photographic postcard of Pullman Porter, Omer Ester and his wife Jean
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1930s
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82
Photographic postcard of soldiers in World War I at Verdun
Artist not stated in the record · July 1918
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Willa Ann Hadley Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · March 30, 1916
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
American Red Cross postcard
Artist not stated in the record · March 16, 1919
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
American Red Cross postcard
Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1919
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1914 - 1918
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
German postcard from World War I
Artist not stated in the record · March 6, 1919
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Andromeda and the Sea Monster
Domenico Guidi · 1694
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
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. 270 matched · 24 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. 3152652 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 21:44 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.