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 “Carte-de-visite of a young man in Napa, California” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

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

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

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

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

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

Tintype Photograph of Gustave Young (1827–1895)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

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

The Temptation
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

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

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

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

Portrait of a Man
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · ca. 1520–25

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

Young Man in the Costume of a Majo
Edouard Manet · 1863

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

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

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Carte-de-visite of a bearded gentleman 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. 168 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. 248 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 20:30 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.