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. 14 shown for “Western Union, founded 1851” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Congratulatory telegram to Althea Gibson from Mary Hardwick Hare
Western Union, founded 1851 · August 8, 1951
Preparing for Christmas (Plucking Turkeys)
Francis William Edmonds · 1851
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
A View near Tivoli (Morning)
Thomas Cole · 1832
The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s
The Grand Canal above the Rialto
Francesco Guardi · late 1760s
Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)
Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) · ca. 1540–49
Mountain and Calligraphy
Ike no Taiga · 18th–19th century
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
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. 35 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. 610384 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:06 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.