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 figure” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:28 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 figure

Standing male figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium 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
Standing Male Figure

Standing Male Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Standing male figure wearing himation, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Standing male figure wearing himation

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

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

Standing male figure

Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Standing male figure in chiton, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Standing male figure in chiton

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a standing male figure

Bronze statuette of a standing male figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing male figure with book, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Standing male figure with book

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

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

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

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
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

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

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
Standing male worshiper

Standing male worshiper

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

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Little Master cup

Terracotta Little Master cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "America", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
President Chester Alan Arthur Standing, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

President Chester Alan Arthur Standing

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1884

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

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
President Chester A. Arthur, Standing, with Separate Head, Shoulder, and Arm Study, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

President Chester A. Arthur, Standing, with Separate Head, Shoulder, and Arm Study

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape and Figure Sketches, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Landscape and Figure Sketches, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1892–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Male Figure

Standing Male Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Vase Design, by Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791

Vase Design

Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791 · ca. 1763

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. 7809 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 718415 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 18:28 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.