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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragmentary marble head of a helmeted soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 69–79 CE

Profile Head of a Soldier
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

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

Head of a Soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1780

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

Head of a Bearded Soldier
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

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

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Mounted Cavalry Officer
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Soldiers of New Granada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 17, 1853

Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

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

Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1864

Head of a soldier in profile, with a sword handle
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon · ca. 1794

Soldiers in a Field
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

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

Program for The Negro Soldier
Artist not stated in the record · 1944

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Cavalry Soldier Loading a Rifle
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64
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.