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 “Statue of a man” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 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.
Bronze statue of a man

Bronze statue of a man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-2nd-1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Niche with Statue of a Man, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

The Elevation of a Niche with Statue of a Man

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a draped seated man, by Zeuxis

Marble statue of a draped seated man

Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

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

Statue of a man

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

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulchral Monument

Project for a Sepulchral Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Part of a Statue of a Man

Upper Part of a Statue of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

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 a Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a large terracotta statue of a man

Fragment of a large terracotta statue of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

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
Sepulchral Chamber

Sepulchral Chamber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of Freedom for Joseph Trammell, by Loudoun County Court, American, founded 1757

Certificate of Freedom for Joseph Trammell

Loudoun County Court, American, founded 1757 · May 10, 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings

Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Freedom papers and handmade tin carrying box belonging to Joseph Trammell, by Joseph Trammell, American, 1831 - 1859

Freedom papers and handmade tin carrying box belonging to Joseph Trammell

Joseph Trammell, American, 1831 - 1859 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
The Worship of Amor Vincitor, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Worship of Amor Vincitor

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Three Studies of Man in a Habit, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Three Studies of Man in a Habit

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1879

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. 13080 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. 3944507 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.