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 “Terracotta bust of a man” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Terracotta bust of a man

Terracotta bust of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

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
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Figural Sketches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Honoré de Balzac, by Auguste Rodin

Honoré de Balzac

Auguste Rodin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a doorcase with figure of a man, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a doorcase with figure of a man

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of the Virgin

Bust of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

Public domainThe Met
Heads of two men, in the style of Frans Hals, by Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897

Heads of two men, in the style of Frans Hals

Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Man, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Bust of a Man

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man, by Lorenzo Mosca

Man

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French, 1762 – 1834

Portrait of a Man

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French, 1762 – 1834 · 1803–06

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta krater, by Hirschfeld Workshop

Terracotta krater

Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with Cap

Portrait of a Man with Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Study for Portrait of a Man

Study for Portrait of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a male figure

Terracotta fragment of a male figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust, by C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish

Bust

C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish · ca. 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an Old Man

Portrait of an Old Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble bust of a man

Marble bust of a man

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a monument in a church, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a monument in a church

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Four Figures, by Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675

Four Figures

Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640

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. 994 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. 3860376 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 21:06 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.