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 “Portrait of Asher B. Durand” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Luman Reed
Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Portrait of Asher B. Durand
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"
Asher Brown Durand · 1850

Georgianna Frances Adams
Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

Mrs. Luman Reed
Charles Cromwell Ingham · ca. 1835

Mary Louisa Adams
Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Asher Brown Durand
Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1858

Declaration of Independence
Asher Brown Durand · 1820–23

Hacket the Actor
Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1826

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Luman Reed
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1835

Banknote motifs: the number 5 and a portrait of Thayendanegea
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1824–37

James Henry Hackett
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1832

Chief Justice John Marshall
Asher Brown Durand · 1833

David Cadwallader Colden
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1818-20

James Kent
Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Philip Syng Physick
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1825

William Gaston
Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Philip Hone
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1826

David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.
Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Jacob Jennings Brown
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1834

Stephen Decatur
Asher Brown Durand · 1835

William Bainbridge
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1817
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. 283 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3165061 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-01 03:46 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.