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 “Christ Before Pilate” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 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.
Christ Before Pilate

Christ Before Pilate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
A scene from the Passion of Christ (Christ before Pilate), by Cesare Nebbia, Italian, ca. 1536 - 1614

A scene from the Passion of Christ (Christ before Pilate)

Cesare Nebbia, Italian, ca. 1536 - 1614 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Pietro Lorenzetti

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Public domainThe Met
Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series

Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection, by Ludwig Schongauer

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection

Ludwig Schongauer

Public domainThe Met
Christ Before Pilate, from series The Passion of Christ

Christ Before Pilate, from series The Passion of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Before Pilate, by Thomas Blanchet

Christ Before Pilate

Thomas Blanchet · ca. 1670–80

Public domainThe Met
Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · 1636

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Christ before Pilate

Roundel with Christ before Pilate

Artist not stated in the record · 1480–1500

Public domainThe Met
Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation, by Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875

Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation

Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · ca. 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Brought Before Pontius Pilate, by Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

Christ Brought Before Pontius Pilate

Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Christ before Pilate, by Unidentified (Italian)

Christ before Pilate

Unidentified (Italian) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Little Passion Series

Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate in front of his Palace, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi, by Hans Schäufelein

Christ before Pilate in front of his Palace, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi

Hans Schäufelein · 1507

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washes His Hands

Pilate Washes His Hands

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Revolving Chair, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Revolving Chair

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1840–70

Public domainThe Met
Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Canopy

Architectural Canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Crowning of Thorns, illustration from "The Passion"

Crowning of Thorns, illustration from "The Passion"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Christ Condemned by Pilate

Roundel with Christ Condemned by Pilate

Artist not stated in the record · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilate Washing His Hands, by Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Public domainThe Met
Christ before Caiaphas, from The Little Passion Series

Christ before Caiaphas, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

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. 1087 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 21136 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 19:19 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.