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. 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

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.

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, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Sketch, Portrait of a Man

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kettle Drum, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Kettle Drum

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Men Fishing with a Rod and Net, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Men Fishing with a Rod and Net

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of the Laocoon (from a cast), by Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964

Head of the Laocoon (from a cast)

Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Men, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Men

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures in a crowd, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Figures in a crowd

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man wearing a cape, depicted from behind, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Man wearing a cape, depicted from behind

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–April 1868

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. 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.