Two 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 “Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 13:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Ambrotype of a young woman holding two white children
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Ambrotype of an unidentified woman and child
Unidentified · ca. 1860

Terracotta statue of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Ambrotype of a woman seated with a hat in her lap
Unidentified · mid-19th century

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Young Woman in Green Dress
Unidentified · ca. 1857

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Ambrotype of a man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Ambrotype of a man
Unidentified · ca. 1850

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Ambrotype of three women in dotted calico dresses
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1870

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
Tintype of a young woman with a white child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Unidentified couple
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1856
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. 1130 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2879726 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-31 13:59 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.