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. 12 shown for “Sketch: A woman seated before an antique sarcophagus” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Sarcophagus Lid with Last Judgement
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd–early 4th century (?)
The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891
Seated goddess with a child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE
Scene of Fishing and Fowling
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647
Seated female figure
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
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. 111 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:51 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.