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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. 23 shown for “Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Four-sided miniature stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–425 BCE

Wildflower
Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1880

Design for a Sepulchral Monument
Unknown, Italian · 1620-1630

Marble grave stele of a little girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Sleeping Children
William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · modeled 1859, carved 1869

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself
Artist not stated in the record · 1861

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a youth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Sketch of Stone Frog and Farm House
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

Head of a youth from a marble stele (grave marker)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525 BCE

Graves of 92nd Div - Pont du Mosson, Meuthe et Moselle. Nov. 24, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · November 24,1918

Marble fragment of a stele (grave marker) of a youth
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

Marble stele (grave marker) of Phainippe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Laura Brown
Anne Whitney, born Watertown, MA 1821-died Boston, MA 1915 · 1859
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. 42 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. 4060382 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 03:45 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.