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. 21 shown for “Carte-de-visite of a bearded gentleman in Napa, California” — 52 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Carte-de-visite of a bearded gentleman in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Carte-de-visite of a gentleman in a white coat
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1866

Carte-de-visite of a young mustachioed man in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Carte-de-visite of a young man wearing a long overcoat in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1866

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Carte-de-visite of a toddler in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Portrait of a Man
Velázquez · ca. 1650

Carte-de-visite of a young boy in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Portrait of an Old Man
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1595–1600

Carte-de-visite of a young woman in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170

Carte-de-visite of a woman in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1648

Carte-de-visite of an infant in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Carte-de-visite of a young family in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Carte-de-visite of a young man in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Carte-de-visite of a young girl 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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 50 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-04 22:05 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.