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. 13 shown for “Boy” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boy
Paul-Louis Cyfflé · 18th century

Two Boys Looking at a Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1760

Boy with water buffalo
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Boy
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Boy
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1765

Boy
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Seated boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–300 BCE

Stamp Seal in the Shape of a Boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
Artist not stated in the record · 100–150 CE

Sleeping Boy
Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1774
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. 4626 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. 11367 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 06:17 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.