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. 15 shown for “White suit jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles” — 43 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
White suit jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Artist not stated in the record · 2002-2006
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Black track suit pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Marty Grace · 2000 - 2010
Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle
Paul Cézanne · 1866
Black track jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Marty Grace · 2000 - 2010
Red suit jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Unidentified · Mid to late 20th century
Bernard Johnson jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997 · 2000 - 2010
Gray suit jacket owned by Melvin Van Peebles
Artist not stated in the record · 2000-2010
White suit pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Artist not stated in the record · 2002-2006
White and dark red patterned tie worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Unidentified · 2000 - 2010
Director's visor worn by Melvin Van Peebles
The American Express Company, American, founded 1850 · Mid to late 20th century
Suspenders worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Jean Casual, American · Mid to late 20th century
Blue and white bandana owned by Melvin Van Peebles
Unidentified · 2000 - 2010
White, brown, and tan striped tie worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Oleg Cassini, American, 1913 - 2006 · 2000 - 2010
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 648553 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 2026-09-03 11:31 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.