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. 14 shown for “Wild Bull Hunt” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Wild Bull Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

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

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Head of a Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Bull hunt
Valerio Belli (Il Vicentino) · 16th century

Fragment of a desert hunt - see 26.3.354-5-related
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Wild Boar Piglet Clay Tomb Sculpture (Haniwa)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Hunting Knife
Hans Sumersperger · ca. 1500

Head of a Hunting Spear
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Bear Killing a Bull
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75
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. 193 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. 50975 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 06:32 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.