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 “Head of Man” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:08 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.
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Heads of Men, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Sketches of Heads of Men

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of Man

Head of Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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
Head of Man Expressive of Horror, by Victor Joseph Ségoffin, French, born Toulouse, France 1867-died Paris, France 1925

Head of Man Expressive of Horror

Victor Joseph Ségoffin, French, born Toulouse, France 1867-died Paris, France 1925 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 595–570 BCE

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
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1650 BC

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies of Animals and Male Heads, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Studies; Verso: Anatomical Studies of Animals and Male Heads

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head, by Temne or Bullom artist(s)

Head

Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Man with Beard in Profile, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Man with Beard in Profile

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo

Cameo

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

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
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Right Foot, Two Heads, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Studies of a Right Foot, Two Heads

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Hands, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Studies of Hands

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–4th century BCE

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
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Man, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Head of a Man

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

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. 42030 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. 2890304 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 08:08 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.