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 of a Male Figure” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sketch, Portrait of a Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

Kettle Drum
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

Men Fishing with a Rod and Net
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

Head of the Laocoon (from a cast)
Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1909

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

Men
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1876–1877

Figures in a crowd
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

Man wearing a cape, depicted from behind
Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–April 1868
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4325598 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 23:12 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.