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 “Venus Genitrix: Fireworks” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venus Genitrix: Fireworks
Artist not stated in the record · 1747
Fireworks Festival Honoring a Marriage
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Cinquiéme Journée. Feu d’artifice sur le Canal de Versailles (Day Five. Fireworks on the Canal of Versailles)
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1676
Palace with Fireworks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Arcade with Serpents and Fireworks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Valentine Feast
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Design for fireworks on the water for the marriage of the Dauphin
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1739
Garden Pavilion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
× Laeliocatanthe Newberry Fireworks 'Mendenhall'
Artist not stated in the record
Charpente du Feu d'Artifice, plan et élévation (Structure for Fireworks, Plan and Elevation), plate 117, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748
Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1756
Palace Garden with Fireworks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1575 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 22:18 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.