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 “Portrait of Lady Boyd” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:35 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

Portrait of Lady Boyd
Artist not stated in the record · 1749

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

William Boyd
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

Portrait of Emma Hamilton
Angelica Kauffmann · 1791

Belle Boyd
Unidentified Artist · c. 1868

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

Albumen print of three members of the Boyd family
Unidentified · 1890-1930

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Flower
Muhammadi of Herat · 1565–75

Lady Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon
Franz Von Lenbach, 13 Dec 1836 - 6 May 1904 · 1901

Portrait of a Woman
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

Lyndon B. Johnson
Cecil Stoughton, 18 Jan 1920 - 3 Nov 2008 · 1963

Lady Lemon (1747–1823)
George Romney · mid- to late 1780s

Fisher Ames
John Boyd, active 1810 - 1825 · 1816

Portrait of a Lady
Gerrit Duyckinck · ca. 1710

Sarah Childress Polk
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · c. 1850

Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby
George Romney · 1776–78

Sarah Childress Polk
Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1846

Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret
James McNeill Whistler · 1883

Caroline Harrison
Clark, active 1890's · c. 1889

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

Lady Arabella Stuart (Stewart)
John Whittakers, Sr., active c. 1619 - 1648 · 1619

Marble portrait of a young girl
Artist not stated in the record · 81–96 CE

Lucretia Garfield
Levin Coburn Handy, 10 Aug 1855 - 26 Mar 1932 · c. 1881
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. 739 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2863246 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 03:35 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.