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 “William Forster” — 62 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Royal George" Cello
William Forster · 1782
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1959
The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1959
A wild-haired, robed woman rushing to the right, seen from behind
Cornelis Saftleven · 1631
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1959
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Albrecht Dürer · 1490–1528
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1959
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519
Miconia mirabilis (Aubl.) L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1959
Viola
Robert Horne · 1757
Miconia mirabilis (Aubl.) L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1959
Lady Guildford (Mary Wotton, 1499–1558)
Hans Holbein the Younger
Acanthagrion obsoletum
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1997
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Pseudagrion acaciae
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1950
Bellona
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633
Erythrodiplax paraguayensis
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1998
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449
Acanthagrion obsoletum
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1997
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Argia variegata
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Nov 1997
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515
Acanthagrion obsoletum
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1997
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 7 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. 263991 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-26 22:40 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.