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 studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

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

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

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

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman standing with a chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1909

Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

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

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Photographic postcard of a woman named Ida Cox
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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

Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio
Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th 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. 381 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. 3918543 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 04:01 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.