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. 16 shown for “Male figure” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tiki (male figure)
Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

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

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Male figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1850 B.C.

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

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Study for male figure
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Sketch, Classical Male Figure in Landscape
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Sketchbook Page: Standing Male Figure
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Standing Cloaked Male Figure
Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650 · 1610–30

Standing male figure in bishop's vestments
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Nude Male Figure, Study for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844

Ceiling detail with winged male figure
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Male figure supporting slab; wall detail
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Grotesque Figure
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1550–1625
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. 4838 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 704032 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 05:46 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.