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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble statue of a draped seated man
Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Portrait of a Seated Man
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1650–1700

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

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

Seated man inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Carl Schurz Seated
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1899

Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

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

Figure of a Seated Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1875

Statue of a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Design for brooch with seated man (Moses?)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Figure of a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Seated Man with Beard
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Marble statuette of a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Nude Study of Seated Man
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1880–84

Statue of an asymmetrically seated man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Figures in a Landscape
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

Statue of a Seated Man in a Cloak
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

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

Marble torso of a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Mountain Landscape with a Cow, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

Seated ballplayer
Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE

Tintype of a seated man
Unidentified · 1880s
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.