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 “Study of a Lion” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:57 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.
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
The Repast of the Lion
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907
Marble statue of a lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE
Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
Recumbent Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2450 BCE
Lion Cub
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE
Study
James McNeill Whistler · 1879
Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th 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. 30078 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 19:57 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.