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. 24 shown for “Johan Carl Loth” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jupiter and Ganymede
Johan Carl Loth · 1645–98

Urn with the Representation of the Salvation of Loth
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Johan Carl Loth · 17th century

Phalaris arundinacea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Solomon
Johan Carl Loth · 17th century

Sauvagesia erecta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1936

Alexander and Bucephalus
Anonymous, French, 17th century · 17th century

Selaginella pedata Klotzsch
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1936

Mother and Child by the Sea
Johan Christian Dahl · 1830

Cyrtomium fortunei J. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1953

Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight
Johan Christian Dahl · 1846

Isolepis setacea (L.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1866 to 23 Sep 1878

An Eruption of Vesuvius
Johan Christian Dahl · 1824

Benjamin West and Family
George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802? · 1779

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
Johan Christian Dahl · 1823
Arthrocardia carinata (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1935

Watch
Johan Bock · ca. 1620
Haliptilon gracile (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W. Johans.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1965

Tankard
Johan Henrik Åkerblom · 1798
Arthrocardia filicula (Lam.) H.W. Johans.
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1935

The Artist, Seated in Front of a Dolmen
Johan Thomas Lundbye · 1844

Dudleya brittonii Johans.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1963

Watch
Johan Georg Reinhold · ca. 1643

Dudleya brittonii Johans.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1947
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. 109 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 41547 matched · 40 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:37 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.