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 unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress” — 64 records examined, 13 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.
Portrait of a Woman
Netherlandish or French · ca. 1470–80

Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1880

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

GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

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

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

I. - Marchande de bananes aux Antilles
Compagnie antilles, French, 1900 - 1910 · ca. 1910

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
![[Stereograph of a Woman Wearing a Tiara and Tulle and Lace Dress, Seated Before a Mirror], by Bautain](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP700230.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Stereograph of a Woman Wearing a Tiara and Tulle and Lace Dress, Seated Before a Mirror]
Bautain · 1850s

Photograph of unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Cabinet card of two unidentified women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Charity
Guido Reni · ca. 1630

Cabinet card of two unidentified women photographed by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress
Paul Cézanne · 1888–90

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

Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Woman in national dress. St. Lucia. W. I.
Minivielle & Chastanet, Saint Lucian, founded 1864 · ca. 1905
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. 44 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. 2943866 matched · 40 examined · 12 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.