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. 21 shown for “Photographic print of an unidentified woman” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Photographic print of a woman on a brick wall
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Photographic print of a woman in front of a building
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

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

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Photograph portrait of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1906-1912

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

Photographic print of unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

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

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

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

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

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

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

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

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

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

Albumen print of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850-1895

Piece of a photographic postcard of an unidentified woman in a jacket and pants
Unidentified Woman or Women · 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. 6328 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2918698 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 16:16 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.