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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510
![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](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8034_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53
![Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7861_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

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

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

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

Cartoon for Cotton Printed Textile, La Route de Jouy
Artist not stated in the record · after 1815

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Stag Hunt with Rifles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

Nymph of the Spring
Lucas Cranach the Younger · ca. 1545–50

After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755 · 1740

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

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

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · ca. 1824–26

Textile
Horace Vernet, French, 1789–1863 · 1815

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Grotesque Designs and Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

St. Eustace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1501

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

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778
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.