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. 12 shown for “Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

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

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
![[Studio Portrait: Woman Standing Wearing Shawl, Brazil], by Christiano Junior](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-15801-123.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Studio Portrait: Woman Standing Wearing Shawl, Brazil]
Christiano Junior · 1864–66

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

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

Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–141 CE

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

Portrait of a Woman
Netherlandish or French · ca. 1470–80

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866
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. 212 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 21:29 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.