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 “When the Moon Shines Bright” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:17 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 Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30
When the Moon Shines Bright
Artist not stated in the record · 1905-09-17
Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750
When The Moon Shines
Artist not stated in the record · 1904
The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490
Moon and Clouds, Terni, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1, 1868
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Sun Shining Over Ocean
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · ca. 1900
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Full Moon in a Cloudy Sky
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–75
Cup and Saucer
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory · 1804
Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1860–65
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Moon over the Rhône Valley, Belalp, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1, 1868
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
The Moon over Clouds, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 13, 1870
Dizi (笛子 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Landscape at Nightfall
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1850–1875
Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century
View Across the Hudson Valley at Sunset, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 14, 1867
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Ruins of a Medieval Castle
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1855-1865
The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor · ca. 1640
Moon Rising over the Porcupine Islands, Bar Harbor, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1860
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. 82 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1204265 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-04 21:17 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.