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 Lady of the Lake” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Lady of the Lake
Malfeson, French · early 19th century
Lake George
John Frederick Kensett · 1869
Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1840
House post figure
Lake Sentani artist · 19th century
The Lady of the Lake
Artist not stated in the record
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Lady of the Lake
Kelloggs & Comstock · 1848-1849
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
Cenchrus echinatus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
Loch Katrine Pier, Scene of the Lady of the Lake
William Henry Fox Talbot · October 1844
Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
Cyperus retrorsus Chapm.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
Scarab Commemorating the Construction of an Artificial Lake
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Phlox drummondii Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532
Cyperus croceus Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490
Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Cyperus brevifolius (Rottb.) Hassk.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729
Cyperus compressus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993
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. 4339 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3083784 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 14:22 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.