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 “Sketch with Kali and a Young Boy” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sketch with Kali and a Young Boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Study of a Young Boy's Head
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

Kali
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Study of a Young Boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Kali and Jagaddhatri
Sri Hemchandra Das · ca. 1850–70

Design for a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Sketches of Tree and Roots, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Theodore Cole Leaning on a Sack, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844 and June 1845

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 22, 1870

Bronze portrait bust of a young boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–68 CE

Justiniano de la Rosa of Barranquilla, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 7, 1853

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Woman of Bethlehem
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 12, 1868

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Five Sketches of Young Boys
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1872

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Boy playing a lute
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

Head of a Young Boy
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

The Invention of Distillation
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · before 1590
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. 981 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. 2828978 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 07:07 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.