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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Two Stags and Roe Buck], by Horatio Ross](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP148505.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Two Stags and Roe Buck]
Horatio Ross · ca. 1858

Tree with Stags and Roe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

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

Stags in a Landscape
Johann Elias Ridinger · early to mid-18th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

A Stag Among Trees
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

A Group of Stags Drinking
Thomas Rowlandson · 1784–88

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866

Cartouche with Hunting Motifs
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1810

Plaque with Christ enthroned with two Apostles
Artist not stated in the record · 850–875

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare
Gustave Courbet · 1857

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1702
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.