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. 14 shown for “George Hunt” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Grand National Democratic Banner
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1864

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

George H. Pendleton
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

A Real Rubber! At Whist
George Hunt · ca. 1825

A Princely Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Hunting Sword
Johann Georg Klett · ca. 1750

Grand Pianoforte
Érard · ca. 1840

Hunting Sword of Prince Camillo Borghese (1775–1832)
François Pirmet · 1809–13

The Rival Whiskers
Theodore Lane · ca. 1824

The Political "Siamese" Twins, the offspring of Chicago miscegenation
Currier & Ives · 1864

Set of hunting implements (Trousse)
Jakob Watzky · ca. 1650

Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th 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. 355 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 203345 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 09:48 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.