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 “Stag” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

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

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Stag
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 19th century

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Agate Lentoid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Title Page
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Chalcedony scaraboid seal
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

A Stag Among Trees
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

Bronze statuette of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–8th century BCE

Tree with Stags and Roe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Shepherdess and stag hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Two-Handled Jar with Stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Two-Handled Jar with Stag
Artist not stated in the record · early 1400s

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Nenfro tomb-slab fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–550 BCE

Design for Berlin Wool Work, Stag
Thomas Wilhelm Meister · ca. 1850

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

A Standing Stag
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–56

Banded chalcedony scarab
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Stag
Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century
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. 361 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. 759 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 05:02 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.