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. 21 shown for “Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941” — 34 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Deer Family
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · ca. 1935
Bullfight in a Divided Ring
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810
Bob-white and Puma
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.
Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810
The Watcher
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.
Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496
Afternoon
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s
The Beginning
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Future
Robert Aitken, born San Francisco, CA 1878-died New York City 1949 · ca. 1931-1934
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68
Past
Robert Aitken, born San Francisco, CA 1878-died New York City 1949 · ca. 1931-1934
Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich
Ellen Emmet Rand, born San Francisco, CA 1876-died New York City 1941 · 1906
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Amor Omnia Vincit
Robert Aitken, born San Francisco, CA 1878-died New York City 1949 · 1937
Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
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. 31 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:44 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.