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 “Seated man” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:31 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 statue of a draped seated man, by Zeuxis

Marble statue of a draped seated man

Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Seated Man, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Portrait of a Seated Man

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated man

Seated man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated man inlay

Seated man inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carl Schurz Seated, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Carl Schurz Seated

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures

Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Man, by George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938

Seated Man

George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938 · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Seated Man

Figure of a Seated Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a seated man

Statue of a seated man

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with seated man (Moses?)

Design for brooch with seated man (Moses?)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a seated man

Figure of a seated man

Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Man with Beard

Seated Man with Beard

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of a seated man

Marble statuette of a seated man

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

Public domainThe Met
Nude Study of Seated Man, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Nude Study of Seated Man

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1880–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of an asymmetrically seated man

Statue of an asymmetrically seated man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Figures in a Landscape, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Figures in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a Seated Man in a Cloak

Statue of a Seated Man in a Cloak

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Six of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Six of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble torso of a seated man

Marble torso of a seated man

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

Public domainThe Met
Mountain Landscape with a Cow, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain Landscape with a Cow, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated ballplayer, by Ameca-Etzatlán artists

Seated ballplayer

Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a seated man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a seated man

Unidentified · 1880s

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. 982 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 68561 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 22:31 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.