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 photograph of young woman” — 64 records examined, 11 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 photograph of young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

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

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

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

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

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

Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1889

Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

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

Young Woman Peeling Apples
Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

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

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

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

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

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

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866

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

Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Photograph of two men and two women
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Cabinet card of Ida Allston
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1891

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)
Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman standing with a pedestal table
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
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. 422 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. 2905989 matched · 40 examined · 9 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.