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 “Shepherdess and stag hunt” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shepherdess and stag hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"
Artist not stated in the record · 1775

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620
![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

Saint Hubert and the Stag
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

The Stag Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

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

Halt of the Hunt
Carle (Charles André) Vanloo · ca. 1737

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

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

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Cup in the form of a stag
Christoph Beham · ca. 1600–1610

Cartouche with Hunting Motifs
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

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

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 2 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Designs for Friezes
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1640–82

Black marble cylinder seal
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Hunting Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Cold, Heat, Anxiety, Vexation, Heaviness, Fear, Age, and Grief Attack Him, (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

Trophy Cup and Case
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1773–75
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. 104 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. 1468429 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 2026-09-05 05:03 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.