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Images / art

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 “Preparatory Study for a Portrait of Man Singh and His Harem” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:47 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Preparatory Study for a Portrait of Man Singh and His Harem

Preparatory Study for a Portrait of Man Singh and His Harem

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Portrait of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Esq., by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for a Portrait of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Esq.

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · May 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Study of Two Men and Skirt Drapery for Mrs. Sheppard Gandy, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Two Men and Skirt Drapery for Mrs. Sheppard Gandy

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Raja Jagat Singh of Kota

Raja Jagat Singh of Kota

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Reverend John F. Pingry, by Unidentified

Reverend John F. Pingry

Unidentified · 1830s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Study for Portrait of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop for the Historical Society, Mass., by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for Portrait of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop for the Historical Society, Mass.

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man

Frans Hals · early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Study of Right Hand, Possibly for Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, Jr., by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Right Hand, Possibly for Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Seated Man, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Portrait of a Seated Man

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Study for Portrait of Charles J. Martin, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for Portrait of Charles J. Martin

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · December 20, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Study for Portrait of James Prendergast, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for Portrait of James Prendergast

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust-Length Study of a Man, by François-Auguste Biard

Bust-Length Study of a Man

François-Auguste Biard · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Portrait of Albert Gallatin, Seated, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for a Portrait of Albert Gallatin, Seated

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Lincoln, by Gutzon Borglum, born Bear Lake, ID 1867-died Chicago, IL 1941

Lincoln

Gutzon Borglum, born Bear Lake, ID 1867-died Chicago, IL 1941 · ca. 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Study for Portrait of Mr. Winthrop, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for Portrait of Mr. Winthrop

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · May 13, 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 609 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. 4071891 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 02:47 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.