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. 23 shown for “The Falcon Hunt” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:29 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.
The Falcon Hunt

The Falcon Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1530

Public domainThe Met
Bird Hunt with Falcons, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Bird Hunt with Falcons

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Tatar horseman with a hawk, by Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322)

A Tatar horseman with a hawk

Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon

A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220

Public domainThe Met
Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Hare Hunt with Falcons, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Hare Hunt with Falcons

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
La Chasse au Faucon (Falcon hunt), by Jacquemart & Bénard, France

La Chasse au Faucon (Falcon hunt)

Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1794–97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
After the Hunt, by Gustave Courbet

After the Hunt

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

Public domainThe Met
A Hunt Scene

A Hunt Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal

Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Falcons, Dog, and Dead Game

Falcons, Dog, and Dead Game

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan

Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 3 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 3 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Hunting Scene, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Title Page and Hunting Scene

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Princely Hunt

A Princely Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

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. 3309 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1196797 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-01 10:29 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.