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. 24 shown for “Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 12:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE
Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. III
Daniel Rice and James G. Clark · 1844
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. II
Daniel Rice and James G. Clark · 1842
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
James Thomas Fields
Julia Margaret Cameron, 11 Jun 1815 - 26 Jan 1879 · May 1869
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. I
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Thomas Cummings and James Shegogue
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1844
Richard Thomas III
James Peale · 1796
Three-Way Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and Unidentified Native American (William McIntosh?)
Unidentified · early 19th century
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Thomas Stone
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1827
The Thomas Hunt and the America
James Bard · 1852
James Thomas Fields
George Kendall Warren, 1834 - 29 Nov 1884 · c. 1870
Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios
Artist not stated in the record · 250–300
Where there is an Evil
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · November 8, 1873
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
James Pollard Espy
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1849
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Thomas Jefferson
Unidentified Artist · c. 1801
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. 352 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2971663 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 12:05 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.