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 “Will of Frederick Smith leaving an enslaved girl named Betty to his wife” — 18 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Bélizaire and the Frey Children
Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans · ca. 1837
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Cephalus and Procris
Godfried Schalcken · probably 1680s
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899
Table clock
Bartholomew Newsam · 1580–85
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. 18 matched · 18 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:33 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.