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 “The Stag Hunt” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nature Sets Her Hound Youth after the Stag (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495–1510

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

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

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

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

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

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

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

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

The Stag Outrun
Kimmel and Forster · n.d.

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

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

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

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

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

Ornamenti o Grottesche (Grotesque Ornament)
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1653

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

Trophy Cup and Case
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1773–75

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

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740

Ornamenti o Grottesche (Grotesque Ornament)
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1653
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. 3015 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. 1188470 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 03:34 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.