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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1917 BC

Academic Study of a Male Nude
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1805

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

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

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Cavagnole
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Statuette of a female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Academic Study of a Male Nude
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna
Unknown · 1650–75

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms
Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Academic Study of a Male Nude
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Sketch of a Male Nude
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder
Barthélemy Prieur · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Tiki (male figure)
Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Academic Study of a Male Nude
Pio Piatti, Italian, 1735–1816 · 1790–1816

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Academic Study of a Male Nude
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

Woman Seated in Chair Wiping her Left Side
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1896–1900, cast 1920

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

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

Academic Study of a Female Nude
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1890
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.