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. 19 shown for “Durkee, George B.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
George Moore (1852–1933)
Edouard Manet · 1879

Patent Model of a Bookbinding Machine
Durkee, George B. · ca 1885

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Ruellia leucobracteatus Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1971

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Justicia crenata (Leonard) Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1903

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Justicia panamensis Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1973

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1971

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1996

The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1996

Anisacanthus nicaraguensis Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 2008

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1977
Pavonia dasypetala Turcz.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1969

Ruellia inundata Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1969

Heliconia metallica Planch. & Linden ex Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1969
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. 5403 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 652442 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 17:24 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.