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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta head of a young man
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Head of a Young Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Terracotta head of a young man
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Head of a Young Man in Left Profile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Portrait of a Young Man
Thomas Sidney Moran, American, 1863–1930 · 1908

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

A Young Man in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

King's attendant
Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

A Young Man's Head
John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1807

Man
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Studies for a Young Man, Drapery
Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · early 18th century

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Study of a Head of a Young Man in Renaissance Attire
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1825

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

Young Man Pulling a Rope
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1700

Terracotta head of a young satyr
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

Study of a Classical Male Head (from a plaster cast)
Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1881–92

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Study of the Back of a Young Man's Head and Raised Right Hand
The Baltimore Museum of Art · early 18th century
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.