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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 “Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490
Costume Design: A Man in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu
Costume Design: A Halberdier for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Costume Design: A Captain for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862
Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840
Fan Mount: The Ballet
Edgar Degas · 1879
Town Square (Study for an Illustration)
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1900
Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67
Costume Design: A Man of the World for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Costume Design: A Nobleman, King, or Prince for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
Design for an niche
Artist not stated in the record · 1780
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Costume Design: A Frenchman for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Costume Design: A Captain for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Project for a Ballet Costume of an Oriental Jester
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
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. 336 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 7483519 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 2026-09-01 11:35 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.