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. 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

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.
Jupiter and Ganymede, by Johan Carl Loth

Jupiter and Ganymede

Johan Carl Loth · 1645–98

Public domainThe Met
Urn with the Representation of the Salvation of Loth

Urn with the Representation of the Salvation of Loth

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Johan Carl Loth

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Johan Carl Loth · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Phalaris arundinacea L.

Phalaris arundinacea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solomon, by Johan Carl Loth

Solomon

Johan Carl Loth · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sauvagesia erecta L.

Sauvagesia erecta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander and Bucephalus, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Alexander and Bucephalus

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella pedata Klotzsch

Selaginella pedata Klotzsch

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mother and Child by the Sea, by Johan Christian Dahl

Mother and Child by the Sea

Johan Christian Dahl · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtomium fortunei J. Sm.

Cyrtomium fortunei J. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight, by Johan Christian Dahl

Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight

Johan Christian Dahl · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Isolepis setacea (L.) R. Br.

Isolepis setacea (L.) R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1866 to 23 Sep 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Eruption of Vesuvius, by Johan Christian Dahl

An Eruption of Vesuvius

Johan Christian Dahl · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin West and Family, by George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802?

Benjamin West and Family

George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802? · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset, by Johan Christian Dahl

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Arthrocardia carinata (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Arthrocardia carinata (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Johan Bock

Watch

Johan Bock · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Haliptilon gracile (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W. Johans.

Haliptilon gracile (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Johan Henrik Åkerblom

Tankard

Johan Henrik Åkerblom · 1798

Public domainThe Met
Arthrocardia filicula (Lam.) H.W. Johans.

Arthrocardia filicula (Lam.) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Artist, Seated in Front of a Dolmen, by Johan Thomas Lundbye

The Artist, Seated in Front of a Dolmen

Johan Thomas Lundbye · 1844

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Johan Georg Reinhold

Watch

Johan Georg Reinhold · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1947

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. 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.