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 “Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · 300–500

Portrait of Bartolomeo di Miniato (d. 1548)
Artist not stated in the record · 1730-1750

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Table Clock
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

IIE. SUITE DE VASES
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

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

Portrait of a Young Man
Giuseppe Sabatelli, Italian, 1813–1843 · 1820–40

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Postcard of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1929

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Design for an Oil Lamp
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · late 18th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Portrait of a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

Portrait of a Young Man
Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

A group portrait of young men from the High School YMCA Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Unidentified · ca. 1930

Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Cabinet card of a young man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Portrait of J.B. Say
Artist not stated in the record · 1805-1810

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Sketchbook Page: Young Man with Sketchbook
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Carte-de-visite of a young mustachioed man in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888
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. 5913 matched · 24 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. 3992148 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 17:29 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.