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 “Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320 BCE

Tintype of a woman
John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890 · 1870s

Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840)
Jean Antoine Houdon · first modeled ca. 1779–80

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat
Unidentified · 1860s

Bronze patera handle in the form of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Tintype of a seated unidentified girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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

Tintype of a seated young woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Two Girls
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Tintype of a young girl in a paper radio frame
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Terracotta statuette of a standing girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Girl with a Pail
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

Girl in a Straw Bonnet
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1868–70

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

The Temptation
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children
Artist not stated in the record · 1864 - 1866

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Tintype of a unidentified young girl in a mailing card
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th 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. 361 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. 7484469 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 06:30 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.