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 “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

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.
Cottage among Trees, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Cottage among Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
A Stag Among Trees

A Stag Among Trees

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and the Stag, by Joachim Friess

Diana and the Stag

Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Trees, Level Distance, by Guo Xi

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Public domainThe Met
Tree with Stags and Roe

Tree with Stags and Roe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haremhab as a Scribe of the King

Haremhab as a Scribe of the King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bed hanging

Bed hanging

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes and trees, by Gong Xian

Landscapes and trees

Gong Xian · ca. 1679

Public domainThe Met
A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"

A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"

Artist not stated in the record · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olive Trees, by Vincent van Gogh

Olive Trees

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead stag and a hound, by Ferdinand Tietz

Dead stag and a hound

Ferdinand Tietz · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Camissoniopsis hirtella (Greene) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Camissoniopsis hirtella (Greene) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Meadow Bordered by Trees, by Théodore Rousseau

A Meadow Bordered by Trees

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1845–60

Public domainThe Met
A Stag and Two Does, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

A Stag and Two Does

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal), by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Master of the Virgin among Virgins

The Lamentation

Master of the Virgin among Virgins

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Hunting Motifs, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Hunting Motifs

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

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. 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.