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 “Head from a Large Statue of a Priest or Dignitary” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:44 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.

Head from a Large Statue of a Priest or Dignitary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 B.C.

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

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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

Marble statue of a lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
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. 2814 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 2026-08-26 20:44 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.