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 “Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair
Artist not stated in the record · mid 1890s-1910

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

Postcard of Ruby, a Pullman maid, with a young girl
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Young Woman Peeling Apples
Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

Photograph of a toddler standing on a wicker chair
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Photograph of Larby Smith standing next to a wicker chair.
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
Charles Paxson, American · 1864

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

Photograph of young man standing next to a wicker chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1906

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

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

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table)
Unidentified · 1850s

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

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

Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Photograph of a girl reading
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Photograph of two girls standing in front of a door
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl
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. 1589 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4008196 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 11:28 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.