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 “Simon Bening” — 59 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Self-portrait
Simon Bening · 1558
AQ CARDUI BENED
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Book of Hours
Simon Bening · ca. 1530–35
Gracilaria tikvahiae McLachlan
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1986
Pietà
Simon Bening · probably 1522–23
Echium rauwolfii Delile
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
Manuscript Leaf with Adoration of the Holy Name, from a Book of Hours
Simon Bening · after 1530 (?)
Groenlandia densa Fourr.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1834
Virgin and Child
Gerard David · ca. 1520
Actinostemon caribaeus Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1925
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Red straw skullcap with matching ruffle flower
Vanilla Beane, American, 1919 - 2022 · 1980s
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Oenothera biennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1995
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary
Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20
Dendropicos fuscescens hartlaubii
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1964
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s
Genetta maculata
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1964
Virgin and Child
Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter · ca. 1495–1500
Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1899
Saint Benedict
Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s
Abies alba Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Apr 1984
Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300
Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledeb.) G.L. Nesom
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1898
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 10633 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 02:51 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.