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 a Soldier” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:27 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.
Fragmentary marble head of a helmeted soldier

Fragmentary marble head of a helmeted soldier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 69–79 CE

Public domainThe Met
Profile Head of a Soldier, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Profile Head of a Soldier

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

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

Head

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Soldier

Head of a Soldier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1780

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 a Bearded Soldier, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Head of a Bearded Soldier

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Soldier Running :Study for Figure in Left Foreground, "Betrayal of Christ," Rome, S. Maria della Consolazione, Matttei Chapel; Separate Studies of Two Heads, by Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian, 1529 - 1566

Soldier Running :Study for Figure in Left Foreground, "Betrayal of Christ," Rome, S. Maria della Consolazione, Matttei Chapel; Separate Studies of Two Heads

Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian, 1529 - 1566 · mid-16th century, before 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Mounted Cavalry Officer, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Mounted Cavalry Officer

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Soldiers of New Granada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Soldiers of New Granada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 17, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Head

Bird Head

Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

Public domainThe Met
A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier

A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a soldier in profile, with a sword handle, by Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

Head of a soldier in profile, with a sword handle

Baron Dominique Vivant Denon · ca. 1794

Public domainThe Met
Soldiers in a Field, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Soldiers in a Field

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Program for The Negro Soldier

Program for The Negro Soldier

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cavalry Soldier Loading a Rifle, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Cavalry Soldier Loading a Rifle

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

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. 32957 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3872671 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-06 11:27 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.