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 “Study, Head of a Woman” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:07 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.
Study Head of a Young Woman, by Anthony van Dyck

Study Head of a Young Woman

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20

Public domainThe Met
Study, Head of a Woman

Study, Head of a Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study Head of a Woman, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Study Head of a Woman

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of a Woman's Head

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head for "Grape Gatherers", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of a Woman's Head for "Grape Gatherers"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · July 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a woman

Terracotta head of a woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head for "A Magdalen", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of a Woman's Head for "A Magdalen"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Old Woman, by Orazio Borgianni

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Roman Girl", Head of a Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for "Roman Girl", Head of a Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Having Her Hair Combed, by Edgar Degas

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head for "Sacred Lesson", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of a Woman's Head for "Sacred Lesson"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head, by J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919

Study of a Woman's Head

J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head in Profile, by J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919

Study of a Woman's Head in Profile

J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · 1890

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. 20029 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3878167 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 16:07 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.