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. 12 shown for “Clark” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Fords Furniture Store, Watsonville, California], by Clark](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-315.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Fords Furniture Store, Watsonville, California]
Clark · 1880s–1890s

Davida Johnson Clark
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1886

Square Piano
Robert Nunns · 1853

Chandelier
Clark, Coit and Cargill · ca. 1845

Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Mrs. Clark
Henry Benbridge · ca. 1770–73

Mrs. Alvan Clark (Maria Pease)
Alvan Clark · 1835–40

Woman with a Rake
Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)
Auguste Renoir · 1914

The Singer in Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1884

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

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE
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. 3095 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 70664 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 06:33 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.