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 “Tree with Stags and Roe” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:36 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.
[Two Stags and Roe Buck], by Horatio Ross

[Two Stags and Roe Buck]

Horatio Ross · ca. 1858

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
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

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
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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stags in a Landscape, by Johann Elias Ridinger

Stags in a Landscape

Johann Elias Ridinger · early to mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
A Stag Among Trees

A Stag Among Trees

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve, by Heinrich Aldegrever

The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Group of Stags Drinking, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Group of Stags Drinking

Thomas Rowlandson · 1784–88

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Hunting Motifs, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Hunting Motifs

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ enthroned with two Apostles

Plaque with Christ enthroned with two Apostles

Artist not stated in the record · 850–875

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare, by Gustave Courbet

Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare

Gustave Courbet · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1702

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. 41 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. 1548700 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 06:36 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.