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 “Fragmentary Head of a Man” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 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.
Fragmentary Head of a Man

Fragmentary Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary porphyry head of a bearded man

Fragmentary porphyry head of a bearded man

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd or 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Man, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Head of a Man, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

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

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eight Heads, Men and Women

Eight Heads, Men and Women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Figural Sketches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Man's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Man's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Man's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Man's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
The Head of a Bearded Man, a Man on Horseback, by Paolo Emilio Besenzi, Italian, 1624 - 1666

The Head of a Bearded Man, a Man on Horseback

Paolo Emilio Besenzi, Italian, 1624 - 1666 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man, by Lorenzo Mosca

Man

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Man

Head of a Young Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1632

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Heads, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Studies of Heads

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a draped seated man, by Zeuxis

Marble statue of a draped seated man

Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child, by Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591

Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child

Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591 · ca. 1570

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. 2294 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. 3879356 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 12:52 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.