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. 13 shown for “Stillman, Paul” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 20:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment from Balustrade of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
William James Stillman · ca. 1882
Counter, Stillman Counting Machine, U.S. Patent Office Model
Stillman, Paul · 1854
Stele from the Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens
William James Stillman · early 1880s
Stele from the Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens
William James Stillman · early 1880s
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1788
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825
Rooster
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 18th century
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) · late 1440s
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480
The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532–35
A Man and a Woman on Horseback
Philips Wouwerman · ca. 1653–54
Portrait of a Noblewoman, Probably Isabella of Portugal (1397–1472)
Netherlandish Painter
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 132790 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 20:41 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.