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 “Photograph of a woman in a dark dress and a girl in a white dress” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Photograph of a woman in a dark dress and a girl in a white dress
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children
Artist not stated in the record · 1864 - 1866

Dressing table
George A. Schastey · 1881–82

Photograph of a girl wearing a pleated dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1900

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

Photograph of a family posing in front of a house
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Cabinet card of an unidentified man, child, and woman by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902

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

Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress and glasses
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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

Photograph studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire
Peter Langlois · 1764

Photograph of a woman in a white dress with black ribbons on the left side
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Photograph of a woman wearing a dress decorated with lace
Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 2612 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7484835 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 01:50 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.