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 head of a young man” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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 head of a young man

Terracotta head of a young man

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Man

Head of a Young Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

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

Terracotta head of a young man

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Man in Left Profile

Head of a Young Man in Left Profile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645

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
Portrait of a Young Man, by Thomas Sidney Moran, American, 1863–1930

Portrait of a Young Man

Thomas Sidney Moran, American, 1863–1930 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head, by Temne or Bullom artist(s)

Head

Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Young Man in Meditation

A Young Man in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Young Man's Head, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

A Young Man's Head

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1807

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

Man

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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
Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Young Man, Drapery, by Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714

Studies for a Young Man, Drapery

Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · early 18th century

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
Study of a Head of a Young Man in Renaissance Attire, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Study of a Head of a Young Man in Renaissance Attire

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man

Man

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Young Man Pulling a Rope, by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Young Man Pulling a Rope

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1700

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

Terracotta head of a young satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Classical Male Head (from a plaster cast), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Study of a Classical Male Head (from a plaster cast)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1881–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Back of a Young Man's Head and Raised Right Hand, by The Baltimore Museum of Art

Study of the Back of a Young Man's Head and Raised Right Hand

The Baltimore Museum of Art · early 18th century

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. 21157 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. 3884654 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.