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 “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

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.
Saint Hubert and the Stag

Saint Hubert and the Stag

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Hubert

Saint Hubert

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mass of Saint Basil, by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

The Mass of Saint Basil

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

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
Saint Stephen, by Hans Leinberger

Saint Stephen

Hans Leinberger · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
The Temple of Serapis

The Temple of Serapis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758), by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Saint Eustace

Saint Eustace

Artist not stated in the record · 1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return of the Cattle, by Hubert Robert

The Return of the Cattle

Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Public domainThe Met
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
The Gardens of the Villa Madama, near Rome

The Gardens of the Villa Madama, near Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Gardens of the Villa Mattei, near Rome

The Gardens of the Villa Mattei, near Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772), by François Hubert Drouais

Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772)

François Hubert Drouais · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett

Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag

Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

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. 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.