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. 18 shown for “Shepherd with lamb in shoulder bag” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shepherd with lamb in shoulder bag
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Seated Shepherd Playing with a Dog
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1770–75
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605
Lamb
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Bag face
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century
Lamb
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
A Pastoral
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1881
Lamb
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740
The Adoration of the Shepherds
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10
Painting of a shepherd boy with lamb
Artist not stated in the record
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Shoulder bag (missing strap)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
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. 272 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. 7463916 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:47 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.