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 man in suit, tie, and hat” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Tintype of man in suit, tie, and hat
Artist not stated in the record · after 1860s

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

Tintype portrait of a man wearing a hat and suit
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Tintype of four unidentified men
Artist not stated in the record · September 21, 1899

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Tintype portrait of three men: Paul Smith, Dave Scott, and Arthur Blin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Tintype of a man
Unidentified · 1856-1900

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case
Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Tintype of a man wearing a suit with a pendant on the lapel
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Tintype of two men wearing suits
Unidentified · 1855-1860s

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Tintype of an unidentified man
Unidentified · ca. 1865

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Tintype of a seated man
Unidentified · 1880s

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Tintype of a man in bow tie and waistcoat
Unidentified · ca. 1870

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

Tintype of a man
Unidentified · 1856-1900
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. 104 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. 7484816 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 06:29 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.