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. 18 shown for “Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906” — 32 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:15 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 Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
That's No Good, the Squire Said, Quietly, by Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906

That's No Good, the Squire Said, Quietly

Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours, by Raphael

Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours

Raphael

Public domainThe Met
Man in a Storm, by Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906

Man in a Storm

Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Storm, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

The Storm

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Trial proof: Portrait of Henry van Dyck, by Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906

Trial proof: Portrait of Henry van Dyck

Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque, by Paul Cézanne

The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding, by Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906

Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding

Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Travelling, by Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917

Travelling

Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917 · ca. 1876-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Decay, by Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917

Decay

Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917 · ca. 1876-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Indian and Buffalo, by Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917

Indian and Buffalo

Walter Clark, born Brooklyn, NY 1848-died Bronxville, NY 1917 · ca. 1876-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant, by Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Montage of American Theatrical Figures, by Unidentified Artist

Montage of American Theatrical Figures

Unidentified Artist · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, by Powell & Co.

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture

Powell & Co. · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 22 matched · 22 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:15 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.