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 “Study, Head of a Woman” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Study Head of a Young Woman
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20

Study, Head of a Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Study Head of a Woman
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1927

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Study of a Woman's Head
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840–50

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

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

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Study of a Woman's Head for "Grape Gatherers"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · July 1855

Terracotta head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Study of a Woman's Head for "A Magdalen"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1852

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · ca. 1780

Head of an Old Woman
Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Study for "Roman Girl", Head of a Woman
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1841

Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

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

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Study of a Woman's Head for "Sacred Lesson"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1843

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Study of a Woman's Head
J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · 1888

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Study of a Woman's Head in Profile
J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · 1890
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. 20029 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3878167 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 16:07 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.