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 “The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Angel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1634
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · after 1634
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1634
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1910
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1634
Adoration of the Shepherds
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Angel Appearing to Joachim
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515
Angel
Giuseppe Sanmartino · second half 18th century
Presentation of the Christ Child to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700
The Adoration of the Shepherds
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10
Adoration of the Shepherds
Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian, 1728 – 1781 · 1766
Angel
Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century
Annunciation to the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1634
Angel
Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1891
Angel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1120
Wildcat Hunt
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1599
The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891
The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511
The Sense of Sight
Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds
Design for Crèche (Nativity Scene)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
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. 14570 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. 1768150 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 2026-09-02 18:28 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.