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. 23 shown for “Landscape—a hunting scene” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:43 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.
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
Landscape—a hunting scene

Landscape—a hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1526-1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Deer Hunt with Hounds [above]; Skylark Hunt with Falcons [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Deer Hunt with Hounds [above]; Skylark Hunt with Falcons [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Hunting Scenes, by Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Hunting Scenes

Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare, by Gustave Courbet

Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare

Gustave Courbet · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque Designs and Hunt Scene

Grotesque Designs and Hunt Scene

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Scene with a Dog and Birds, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Hunting Scene with a Dog and Birds

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with hunting scene

Mirror with hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Hunting Scene, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Title Page and Hunting Scene

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Scenes

Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword

Hunting Sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Scene with a Dog and Ducks, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Hunting Scene with a Dog and Ducks

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl decorated with hunting scenes

Glass bowl decorated with hunting scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 4th–early 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Scene with a Dog Attacking a Bird, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Hunting Scene with a Dog Attacking a Bird

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

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. 2666 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. 1335 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 2026-09-08 19:43 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.