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. 17 shown for “Portrait of Harriet Bell Hayden” — 45 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:18 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 Man
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · 1528–29

Portrait of Harriet Bell Hayden
Artist not stated in the record · 1864 circa

Mrs. Andrew Sigourney
Gilbert Stuart · Ca. 1820

Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman
Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939 · ca. 1920

George Washington
Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman
Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939 · ca. 1920

Head of Christ
Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860 · c. 1850-60

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Newspaper clipping with a portrait of Harriet Tubman
John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s · ca. 1868; printed 1986

Harriet Tubman
John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s · c. 1868

Annie Harriet Haden
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1858

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1898

Mrs. Harriet Handy Winder
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Miss Harriet Brown
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Harriet Randolph Hackley
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart
Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1796 - 1863 · c. 1822-23
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2871792 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-04 18:18 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.