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. 23 shown for “William R. Pelham, Medal of Honor Recipient” — 59 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595
William R. Pelham, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger
Webb · 19th century
William McKnight, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
William D. Newland, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
James Miller, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1789
John F. Mackie, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Lewis C. Shepard, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")
Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857
Daniel D. Stevens, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860
Hugh Molloy, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624
John H. Lawson, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Roadside Halt
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826
Cornelius Cronin, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Bartholemew Diggins, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 3535021 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:46 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.