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. 24 shown for “Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:36 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.
Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

Public domainThe Met
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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Deer Hunt with Nets, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Deer Hunt with Nets

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Cotton Printed Textile, La Route de Jouy

Cartoon for Cotton Printed Textile, La Route de Jouy

Artist not stated in the record · after 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Stag Hunt with Rifles, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Stag Hunt with Rifles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph of the Spring, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach the Younger · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755

After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt", by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · ca. 1824–26

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Horace Vernet, French, 1789–1863

Textile

Horace Vernet, French, 1789–1863 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

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
Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds Overconfidence, Rashness, and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds Overconfidence, Rashness, and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
St. Eustace

St. Eustace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1501

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3083629 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 20:36 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.