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 “Woman Holding a Fan” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Seated Woman Holding a Fan
François Boucher · 18th century

Seated woman holding a fan
Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Seated Woman Holding a Fan
Umberto Boccioni · 1907

Seated Woman Holding a Fan
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1717

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

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman Standing, Holding a Fan
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 · 12th month, 1788

Terracotta statuette of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Terracotta statuette of a woman wearing a hat and holding a fan
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Woman
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
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. 1617 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:25 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.