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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arques-la-Bataille
John Henry Twachtman · 1885

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

Landscape
John Henry Twachtman · after 1890

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

Arques-la-Bataille
John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1884

Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife)
John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

Waterfall
John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1889–91

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

Horseneck Falls
John Henry Twachtman · ca. 1889–1900

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

Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

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

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

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

Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Haystacks at Edge of Woods
John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1895

Center table
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

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

Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

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

Armchair
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

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

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

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