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. 12 shown for “Male Figure (Moai Tangata)” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:15 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Carduus nutans L.

Carduus nutans L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Men, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Men

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1876–1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indians: 9 Male and Female Torsos; 9 Head, Profiles--no. 28, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Indians: 9 Male and Female Torsos; 9 Head, Profiles--no. 28

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male figure in Renaissance dress, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Male figure in Renaissance dress

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ascending male figure, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Ascending male figure

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for male figure, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study for male figure

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures in a crowd, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Figures in a crowd

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure, by Unidentified

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque Figure, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque Figure

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1550–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Cloaked Male Figure, by Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650

Standing Cloaked Male Figure

Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650 · 1610–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing male figure in bishop's vestments, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Standing male figure in bishop's vestments

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 704035 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 03:15 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.