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 “Serpent Speaking to a Young Man” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 21:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Serpent Speaking to a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE
Coffeepot
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1770–1780
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623
Figures Attacked by Serpents
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–25
Young Husband: First Marketing
Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854
Letter to M. C. Taylor from T. Heatherly regarding the slave trade
Artist not stated in the record · December 19, 1840
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Study for Serpents Sent to Destroy the Sinners, Plate 360, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Temperance Banner: Love, Purity, Fidelity by Kelloggs & Comstock
Kelloggs & Comstock · ca 1850
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Lunette with Allegory of Architecture
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–13
Portrait of a Young Man
Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470
Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser No. 2745
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1787
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75
Fighting serpents with fire
Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1595
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
"Tipsy Tavener"
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–mid-19th century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
"Le Villageois et le Serpente" from La Fontaine's Fables
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–1800
Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63
Figural Sketches
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775
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. 1677 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2284399 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-05 21:38 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.