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 Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916” — 50 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 13:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
At the Seaside
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1892
Crucifixion
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · ca. 1872-1879
For the Little One
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1896
Girl in White
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · ca. 1890
Carmencita
William Merritt Chase · 1890
Roses
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · ca. 1883
Bessie Potter
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1895
The Court Jester
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · 1881
Edward Guthrie Kennedy
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1895
Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · 1906
Alice Gerson in Prospect Park
William Merritt Chase · 1886
Portrait of Mrs. C--
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1894
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
William Merritt Chase · 1885
Portrait of Mrs. C--
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1894
Roland
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1902
Alice
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1892
Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase
William Merritt Chase · 1880–90 (?)
Alice
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1892
Lady in Black
William Merritt Chase · 1888
The Artist's Daughter Alice
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1896
Fish
William Merritt Chase · by 1910
A Lady in Black
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1910
Seventeenth Century Lady
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1895
Portrait of a Woman
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1906
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 26 matched · 26 examined · 0 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 13:38 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.