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 “Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 15:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Figure Studies
Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer)
Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1795

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

Uniform cap and cap badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1925

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

La Caravane du Caire
Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

A Youthful Pilgrim
Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase
George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925 · 1924

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Member badge for the Deborah Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star
Order of the Eastern Star, American, founded 1850 · 20th century

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Letter carrier uniform jacket
Maher Brothers · 1893 - 1925

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Old Woman in Turban
Unidentified

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio
Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789

Old Woman
Eugène Burnand, Swiss, born Moudon, Switzerland 1850-died Paris, France 1921 · n.d.
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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1583570 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-30 15:26 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.