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 young woman wearing a black dress” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 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 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 black dress
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

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

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Tintype of young woman in striped dress
Artist not stated in the record · Late 1860s

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Photographic print of 4 women sitting in front of a sofa
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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

Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Tintype of a young woman with a white child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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

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

Tintype of a young woman with a white child
Unidentified · ca. 1865

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Photograph of a woman standing and a woman sitting
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Photographic print of a man and woman standing in front of a car
Unidentified · 1920s

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

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

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Photograph of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910
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. 2082 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. 3903378 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.