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 “Stag” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:02 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.
Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

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
Diana and the Stag, by Joachim Friess

Diana and the Stag

Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stag

Stag

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

Public domainThe Met
Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agate Lentoid

Agate Lentoid

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Title Page

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalcedony scaraboid seal

Chalcedony scaraboid seal

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Stag Among Trees

A Stag Among Trees

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a stag

Bronze statuette of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tree with Stags and Roe

Tree with Stags and Roe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherdess and stag hunt

Shepherdess and stag hunt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Artist not stated in the record · early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nenfro tomb-slab fragment

Nenfro tomb-slab fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Berlin Wool Work, Stag, by Thomas Wilhelm Meister

Design for Berlin Wool Work, Stag

Thomas Wilhelm Meister · ca. 1850

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
A Standing Stag, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

A Standing Stag

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banded chalcedony scarab

Banded chalcedony scarab

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

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

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. 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.