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 “George E Germer, 1868 – 1936” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:52 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Pendant

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Public domainThe Met
Ecclesiastical Ornament Drawing: Cross, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Ecclesiastical Ornament Drawing: Cross

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1888–1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bracelet, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Bracelet

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Brooch

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Capture of Carthage, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Brooch

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bracelet, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Bracelet

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bracelet, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Bracelet

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Brooch

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1900–1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Resurrection, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

The Resurrection

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Candlestick

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Candlestick

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Processional Cross, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Processional Cross

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1932

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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1703 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 22:52 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.