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Images / art

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 “Gauntlet for the Left Hand” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:53 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Gauntlet for the Left Hand, by Jörg Sigman

Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Jörg Sigman · ca. 1557

Public domainThe Met
Life Cast of Left Forearm and Hand (fragment, study for "The Greek Slave"), by Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873

Life Cast of Left Forearm and Hand (fragment, study for "The Greek Slave")

Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · ca. 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitten Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Mitten Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Kneeling Monk, by Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714

Studies for a Kneeling Monk

Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Portrait of a Standing Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch for Portrait of a Standing Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430–40

Public domainThe Met
Mercy's Hand and Arm, Study for "Mercy's Dream", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Mercy's Hand and Arm, Study for "Mercy's Dream"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
German Gothic Gauntlet for the Left Hand

German Gothic Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Two Sketches of a Left Hand, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Two Sketches of a Left Hand

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Public domainThe Met
Two Martyrs, by Giovanni Gerolama Boniforte, Italian

Two Martyrs

Giovanni Gerolama Boniforte, Italian · 1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Julia Wells for "My Cousin in Blue", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch of Julia Wells for "My Cousin in Blue"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · May 8, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, by Jacob Halder

Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales

Jacob Halder · ca. 1608

Public domainThe Met
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Public domainThe Met
The Atlantic, Nude Study for "The Marriage of the Atlantic and Pacific," Mural in the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

The Atlantic, Nude Study for "The Marriage of the Atlantic and Pacific," Mural in the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Gauntlet for the Right Hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430–40

Public domainThe Met
Study of Hands for Elderly Woman in "Communion of the Sick", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Hands for Elderly Woman in "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Public domainThe Met
Study of Left Hand for "Communion of the Sick", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Left Hand for "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 4533 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. 1261698 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 14:53 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.