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 “Saint Hubert and the Stag” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Hubert and the Stag
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Saint Hubert
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 1763

The Mass of Saint Basil
Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

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

Saint Stephen
Hans Leinberger · ca. 1525–30

The Temple of Serapis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1762

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)
Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Saint Eustace
Artist not stated in the record · 1655

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

View on the St. Peter's River, Sioux Indians Pursuing a Stag in their Canoes
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1836-1837

The Return of the Cattle
Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Albarello
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

The Gardens of the Villa Madama, near Rome
Artist not stated in the record · 1761

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

The Gardens of the Villa Mattei, near Rome
Artist not stated in the record · 1761

Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772)
François Hubert Drouais · 1757
Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 2008

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897
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. 156 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. 1923487 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-05 06:37 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.