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 “Standing Male Deity” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:34 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.
Standing Male Deity

Standing Male Deity

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Male Deity (possibly Shiva)

Standing Male Deity (possibly Shiva)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 04 “Juno,” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 04 “Juno,” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing male worshiper

Standing male worshiper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Artist not stated in the record · ca. last quarter of the 7th century–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hemicycle, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Hemicycle, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1753–63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Four-Armed Male Deity

Standing Four-Armed Male Deity

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for an Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sketches for an Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Male Deity (Perhaps Vishnu) Holding a Conch

Standing Male Deity (Perhaps Vishnu) Holding a Conch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiki (male figure), by Mangarevan artist

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
After Washington Allston's "Outlines and Sketches", by John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885

After Washington Allston's "Outlines and Sketches"

John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Male Nude, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Standing Male Nude

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · November 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of a standing deity

Amulet of a standing deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Standing Male Figure, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Standing Male Figure

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fudo Myo 'o, with attendants Kongara and Seitaka

Fudo Myo 'o, with attendants Kongara and Seitaka

Artist not stated in the record · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Deity

Standing Female Deity

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Enthroned deity

Enthroned deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 1198 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 688631 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 15:34 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.