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 “Two Male Nudes” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:03 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.
Two Male Nudes

Two Male Nudes

Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiki (male figure), by Mangarevan artist

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680

Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680 · 1670–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures, by Théodore Géricault

Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures

Théodore Géricault · 1816–23

Public domainThe Met
Figure Study for "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel", by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Figure Study for "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel"

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male god

Male god

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

Public domainThe Met
Framed Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Framed Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Figure Study for Seal of the University Club, New York, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Figure Study for Seal of the University Club, New York

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze handle from a cista (toiletries box)

Bronze handle from a cista (toiletries box)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Arms of the Duchess of Kendal

Arms of the Duchess of Kendal

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated male figure, by Lagunillas artist(s)

Seated male figure

Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Figures Mourning Over the Dead Christ, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Figures Mourning Over the Dead Christ

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male

Left Side of a Statuette, Probably a Nude Male

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1917 BC

Public domainThe Met
Two Sketches of a Nude Figure, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Two Sketches of a Nude Figure

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing of a Ramesside King and Two Standing Figures

Drawing of a Ramesside King and Two Standing Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fountain and nude male figure, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Fountain and nude male figure

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court official from a commemorative altar, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Court official from a commemorative altar

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Male Nude, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Standing Male Nude

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1866

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. 3864 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 720581 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 01:03 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.