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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Design for a Pendant
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–20

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1928

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Ecclesiastical Ornament Drawing: Cross
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1888–1936

The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Design for a Bracelet
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1915

Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

The Capture of Carthage
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

The Battle of Vercellae
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Design for a Bracelet
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Design for a Bracelet
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

Venus and the Lute Player
Titian · ca. 1565–70

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1900–1925

The Resurrection
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Design for a Candlestick
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1933

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Design for a Candlestick
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1933

Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Design for a Processional Cross
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1932
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.