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 “Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel” — 50 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel
Artist not stated in the record · September 8, 1819
Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun
Alfred Sisley · 1894
Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1811
The Sheepfold
Charles Jacque · 1857
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 6, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Four Scenes from the Passion
Bernard van Orley
Broadside for the estate sale of Robert Skeen including ten enslaved people
Artist not stated in the record · March 18, 1862
Hamlet and His Mother
Eugène Delacroix · 1849
Cover sent from Lima, OH to Florida
Artist not stated in the record · March 12, 1888
A Village Street: Dardagny
Camille Corot · 1852, 1857, or 1863
The Descent from the Cross
Master of the Holy Blood
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1430–1470
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1367552 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 23:02 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.