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 “Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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.
Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male

Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1917 BC

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Male Nude, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Male Nude

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure Studies, by Carlo Bononi, Italian, 1569–1632

Figure Studies

Carlo Bononi, Italian, 1569–1632 · 1600–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cavagnole

Cavagnole

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a female

Statuette of a female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Male Nude, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Male Nude

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna, by Unknown

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna

Unknown · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Male Nude, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Male Nude

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Male Nude, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Male Nude

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder, by Barthélemy Prieur

Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder

Barthélemy Prieur · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680

Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680 · 1670–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiki (male figure), by Mangarevan artist

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Male Nude, by Pio Piatti, Italian, 1735–1816

Academic Study of a Male Nude

Pio Piatti, Italian, 1735–1816 · 1790–1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Male Nude, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Academic Study of a Male Nude

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Seated in Chair Wiping her Left Side, by Edgar Degas

Woman Seated in Chair Wiping her Left Side

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1896–1900, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Five Figures, by Tomaso D'Antonio Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano, 1536 – 1571

Studies of Five Figures

Tomaso D'Antonio Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano, 1536 – 1571 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Academic Study of a Female Nude, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Academic Study of a Female Nude

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1890

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. 2856 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4322865 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 03:27 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.