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 “A Stag Among Trees” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cottage among Trees
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

A Stag Among Trees
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Tree with Stags and Roe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE
![Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8034_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–1598

Haremhab as a Scribe of the King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE

Bed hanging
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Landscapes and trees
Gong Xian · ca. 1679

A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"
Artist not stated in the record · 1775

Olive Trees
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dead stag and a hound
Ferdinand Tietz · mid-18th century

Camissoniopsis hirtella (Greene) W.L. Wagner & Hoch
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1982

A Meadow Bordered by Trees
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1845–60

A Stag and Two Does
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1870s

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

The Lamentation
Master of the Virgin among Virgins

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Cartouche with Hunting Motifs
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45
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. 1054 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1799961 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-05 06:36 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.