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. 15 shown for “Hunt of a roebuck” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hunt of a roebuck
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th century

Midwife uniform overdress worn by Amanda Carey Carter
Artist not stated in the record · 1960s - 1980s

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Photograph of a hunting party
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1903

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

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1824

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

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

Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Still Hunt
Edward Kemeys · 1894

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE
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. 2568 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. 3854767 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 09:25 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.