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 “Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume
Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

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

Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Paper Doll Costume with Muff and Blue Cloak
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

Paper Doll and Costume
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly
Master of Saint Giles · ca. 1500

Paper Doll Costume in White with Black Spots
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Paper Doll Costume in Pink with Black Lace and Yellow Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground
Théodore Chassériau · ca. 1846

Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion)
Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836 · 1807

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Paper Doll Costume in White with Red Roses
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Chapan (robe)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century
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. 158 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. 7483641 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-06 17:01 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.