OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Bust of a Naophorous Statue” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:12 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Bust of a Naophorous Statue

Bust of a Naophorous Statue

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three Studies of Man in a Habit, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Three Studies of Man in a Habit

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling Statue of Yuny

Kneeling Statue of Yuny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Model, Rome, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Bust of a Model, Rome

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Naophorous Block Statue of a Governor of Sais, Psamtikseneb

Naophorous Block Statue of a Governor of Sais, Psamtikseneb

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bust of Frederica-Albertina, Abbess of Steterburg, by Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747

Bust of Frederica-Albertina, Abbess of Steterburg

Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1770–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of an Official

Bust of an Official

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bust of August William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern, by Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747

Bust of August William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern

Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · ca. 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV, by Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819

Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV

Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Cast of a Classical Female Bust, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Cast of a Classical Female Bust

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Cast of a Bust of a Roman Senator, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Cast of a Bust of a Roman Senator

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Honoré de Balzac, by Auguste Rodin

Honoré de Balzac

Auguste Rodin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Bust of a Woman, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Bust of a Woman

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Ankhemtenenet

Statue of Ankhemtenenet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), by Jean-Baptiste Stouf

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)

Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Roman Senator (rendering from a plaster cast), by Pietro Montana, b. 1890

Bust of a Roman Senator (rendering from a plaster cast)

Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · April 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 114 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3935615 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 22:12 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.