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 an unidentified child” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Photographic print of an unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

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

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Photographic print of unidentified woman and child
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · Early sixteenth century

Cabinet card of an unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Madonna and Child
Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

An Hour's Hunting
Artist not stated in the record · 1876-1888

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Photographic postcard of unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

Madonna and Child
Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a gingham dress by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

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

Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a white dress by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906
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. 4998 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2920608 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 2026-09-06 15:16 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.