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 “J.G. Hunt” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Bandbox
J.G. Hunt · ca. 1850

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

Portrait of Thomas Sterry Hunt (1826-1892)
Parks, J.G. ?-1895 · 1892

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859
Sagittaria latifolia var. pubescens (Muhl.) J.G. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1902

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

Tile
J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Elymus arizonicus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1947

The Falcon Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1530

Elymus arizonicus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1891

The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Elymus arizonicus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1936 to Sep 1936

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

Elymus arizonicus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Sep 1899

Daniel Praying
William Holman Hunt · 1849

Elymus multisetus (J.G. Sm.) Burtt Davy
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1894

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

Elymus elymoides subsp. brevifolius (J.G. Sm.) Barkworth
Artist not stated in the record

Plate with king hunting rams
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-5th–mid-6th century CE
Sagittaria australis (J.G. Sm. ex C. Mohr) Small
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1900

Rapier
Daniele da Serravalle · dated 1560

Elymus elymoides subsp. brevifolius (J.G. Sm.) Barkworth
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1934 to Aug 1934
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. 101 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. 20445 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-07 08:19 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.