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 “Limestone statue of a youth” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:28 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.
Limestone statue of a youth

Limestone statue of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Turbaned Youth

Head of a Turbaned Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Youth's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Youth's Head

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Woodland Maid and Youth

Woodland Maid and Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

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
Design for Garden Architecture with Colonna Arms

Design for Garden Architecture with Colonna Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone statue of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Youth, by George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938

Sketch of a Youth

George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938 · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of an enthroned youth

Limestone statue of an enthroned youth

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Cheyenne Youth, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Two Cheyenne Youth

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Youth

Head of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Valentine Greeting

Valentine Greeting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus

Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Self Portrait of William Hogarth

Self Portrait of William Hogarth

Artist not stated in the record · 1786-1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
A Youthful Pilgrim

A Youthful Pilgrim

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

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. 738 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. 3941534 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 2026-08-27 07:28 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.