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 portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:04 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 with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Photograph portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1915

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

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson, Samuel M. Jackson Jr and two women
Unidentified · 1926

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

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat
Unidentified · 1860s

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

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

Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Photographic postcard of Sally Cathrell, a man and a woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1937

Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)
David Morier · ca. 1751–60

Photograph of a man and two women
Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

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

Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1925

Portrait of a Woman
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

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

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918
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. 2596 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. 3891086 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 05:04 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.