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. 19 shown for “The Ballad of a Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90
The Ballad of a Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold
Artist not stated in the record · 1927
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Sheet music for “The Old Postmaster”
Artist not stated in the record · 1900
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci
Ballad For Americans
John La Touche, American, 1914 - 1956 · 1940
The Babes in the Wood
Thomas Crawford · ca. 1850, carved 1851
Theatre program for Ballad for Bimshire
Ossie Davis, American, 1917 - 2005 · 1963
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Old Black Joe
Horace Pippin, born West Chester, PA 1888-died West Chester, PA 1946 · 1943
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
The Worship of Amor Vincitor
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Eastman Johnson, born Lovell, ME 1824-died New York City 1906 · ca. 1872
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
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. 69 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. 3978614 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 18:44 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.