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. 19 shown for “Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 UTC · fetched live 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.
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Lotus Bowl, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Lotus Bowl

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1912–1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), by Gustav Klimt

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Public domainThe Met
Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

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

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Madracis pharensis luciphila

Madracis pharensis luciphila

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1965

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
Apium inundatum (L.) Rchb. f.

Apium inundatum (L.) Rchb. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wellfleet Islands, Looking West, by William Rimmer

Wellfleet Islands, Looking West

William Rimmer · ca. 1868

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Clara Fasano, by Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946

Portrait of Clara Fasano

Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946 · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horsewoman, by Théodore Géricault

Horsewoman

Théodore Géricault · 1820 or later

Public domainThe Met
Androsace acuta Greene

Androsace acuta Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Otua fefine (deity figure), by Ha'apai Islands artist

'Otua fefine (deity figure)

Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Resurrection, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

The Resurrection

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
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
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
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1135666 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:30 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.