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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Falcon Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1530

Bird Hunt with Falcons
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

A Tatar horseman with a hawk
Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 1368-1644

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220
![Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [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-3C77C65DC95F2-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-99

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Hare Hunt with Falcons
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1599

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

La Chasse au Faucon (Falcon hunt)
Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1794–97

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

A Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Falcons, Dog, and Dead Game
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 3 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Title Page and Hunting Scene
Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

A Princely Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600
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.