Two 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 “Two Children” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci

Woman and Man with Two Children
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–early 18th century

Design Amulet with Loop on the Back, Device of Two Children shown in Opposite Vertical Orientations
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–1950 B.C.

Two Children
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

Pair of sandals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Cabin with Two Children
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Carte-de-visite of two children
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s-1870s

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Designs for Cartouches
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · mid- 18th century

Two Children
Frederic, Lord Leighton · ca. 1849

Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789-1793

Two children
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · 1751–54

The Death of Two Children
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

Christ Blessing the Children
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Two Children Embrace
Stefano della Bella · ca. 1662

Two Children Embrace
Stefano della Bella · ca. 1662

Woman with two children
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · ca. 1821–33
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. 1180 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 58421 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 2026-09-03 10:20 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.