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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragmentary Head of a Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

Fragmentary porphyry head of a bearded man
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd or 3rd century CE

Head of a Man, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Eight Heads, Men and Women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Figural Sketches
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Study of a Man's Head
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Study of a Man's Head
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

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

The Head of a Bearded Man, a Man on Horseback
Paolo Emilio Besenzi, Italian, 1624 - 1666 · ca. 1650

Man
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Head of a Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–1790

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Head of a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

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

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Studies of Heads
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1760–80

Marble statue of a draped seated man
Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child
Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591 · ca. 1570
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.