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. 12 shown for “Statuette of a Nude Woman” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Nude Woman Seated by a Stream
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1846

Counterproof Study of a Nude Woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Nude Woman
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1880

Female Nude, Study of Peace for "Justice and Peace"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1886

Hercules at the Crossroads (The Effects of Jealousy)
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · before 1500

Death and the Standing Nude Woman
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1547

Nude Study of a Seated Woman
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

Nude woman leaping
Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · ca. 1910

Four Nude Women (The Four Witches)
Artist not stated in the record · 1497

The Sea Monster
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1498

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3854467 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 14:54 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.