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 “Marble torso of Eros” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:42 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.
Marble torso of Eros

Marble torso of Eros

Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Torso

Torso

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble torso of Eros, by Praxiteles

Marble torso of Eros

Praxiteles · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Eros (Vatican no. 250), two views, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Eros (Vatican no. 250), two views

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1849-1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso, by Auguste Rodin

Torso

Auguste Rodin · modeled ca. 1877–78, cast 1979

Public domainThe Met
Dicliptera eenii S. Moore

Dicliptera eenii S. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head and torso of Athena

Marble head and torso of Athena

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Panels of Ornament Design, by Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689

Two Panels of Ornament Design

Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689 · 1664-1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna...., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosso antico torso of a centaur

Rosso antico torso of a centaur

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fan, by Unidentified

Fan

Unidentified · 1775-1800

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
Tile, by Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908

Tile

Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908 · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Herakles seated on a rock

Marble statue of Herakles seated on a rock

Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
drapery study for costumed male torso, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

drapery study for costumed male torso

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1732-died Naples, Italy 1792

Drawing

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1732-died Naples, Italy 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Love over Time, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

The Triumph of Love over Time

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples

Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Corsetted Female Torso

Corsetted Female Torso

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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. 201 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2859869 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 2026-08-28 22:42 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.