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 Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 02:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

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

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

The Battle at Nauders, from "Der Weisskunig"
Artist not stated in the record · 1775

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
![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

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 2 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

Ornamenti o Grottesche (Grotesque Ornament)
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1653

Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Cold, Heat, Anxiety, Vexation, Heaviness, Fear, Age, and Grief Attack Him, (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1750

Dying Stag
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · ca. 1830

The Stag Outrun
Kimmel and Forster · n.d.

Stag at bay, from 'Animal hunts' (Chasses à différents animaux)
Stefano della Bella · ca. 1654

The Stag Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Stag at bay, from "Animal hunts" (Chasses à différents animaux)
Stefano della Bella · ca. 1654

Deer Hunt with Nets
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1599

Hounds Hunting a Stag
Thomas Rowlandson · 1784–88

Grotesque Designs and Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Wooded Landscape with Stag Hunt
Tobias Verhaecht · late 16th–early 17th century

Stag Hunt with Rifles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s
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. 81 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1953095 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 02:00 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.