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 “The Angel Appearing to Joseph” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
The Angel Appearing to Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
Study for Painting "The Flight into Egypt"
Antonio Bellandi, Italian · ca. 1860
Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · after 1634
![Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9290_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605
The Angel Appearing to Sennacherib's Army In Battle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s
Study of Hand for Angel Appearing to St. Peter in "Early Christian Martyrs"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1839–40
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1634
Abraham Entertaining Three Angels
John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1797
Virgin, Infant, and Joseph with an Angel Playing on a Violin
Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1770
Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting
Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1670–1747
Madonna Appearing to Saint
Rodriguez · ca. 1650–60
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1822139 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 16:23 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.