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 “Cabinet card of a young woman holding a fan” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Cabinet card of a young woman holding a fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

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

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman holding a fan by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Photograph of a man and a woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Cabinet card of a woman named Lucy
Artist not stated in the record · late 1880s-early 1890s

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

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Cabinet card of three young women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Photograph of a woman holding a closed parasol
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Photograph of a woman holding a parasol
Artist not stated in the record · early 1890s

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

Photograph of a young woman wearing a black dress
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Terracotta statuette of a woman wearing a hat and holding a fan
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Photograph of young man holding a hat and gloves
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 585 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. 3872783 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.