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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

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

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt · 1912–13
Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Madracis pharensis luciphila
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1965

The Capture of Carthage
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Apium inundatum (L.) Rchb. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1889

Wellfleet Islands, Looking West
William Rimmer · ca. 1868

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

Horsewoman
Théodore Géricault · 1820 or later

Androsace acuta Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1893

'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

The Resurrection
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

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

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

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