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 “John Henry Twachtman” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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.
Arques-la-Bataille, by John Henry Twachtman

Arques-la-Bataille

John Henry Twachtman · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Misty May Morn, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Misty May Morn

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by John Henry Twachtman

Landscape

John Henry Twachtman · after 1890

Public domainThe Met
On the Terrace, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

On the Terrace

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arques-la-Bataille, by John Henry Twachtman

Arques-la-Bataille

John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife), by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife)

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waterfall, by John Henry Twachtman

Waterfall

John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1889–91

Public domainThe Met
Wild Flowers, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Wild Flowers

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horseneck Falls, by John Henry Twachtman

Horseneck Falls

John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1889–1900

Public domainThe Met
Tiger Lilies, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Tiger Lilies

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Side Chair

Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

Public domainThe Met
Chestnuts, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Chestnuts

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · after 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Flowers, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Flowers

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Haystacks at Edge of Woods, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Haystacks at Edge of Woods

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by John Henry Belter

Center table

John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Willow, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Willow

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Road near Honfleur, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Road near Honfleur

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1883-1884, restrike 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by John Henry Belter

Armchair

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
The Torrent, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

The Torrent

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

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. 4445 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 372937 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-26 16:07 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.