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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874

That's No Good, the Squire Said, Quietly
Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1897

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

Man in a Storm
Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

The Storm
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1880

Trial proof: Portrait of Henry van Dyck
Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1885

Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding
Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906 · 1899

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

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

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

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

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

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

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

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

Montage of American Theatrical Figures
Unidentified Artist · 1866

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture
Powell & Co. · 1865
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.