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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Christ Before Pilate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

A scene from the Passion of Christ (Christ before Pilate)
Cesare Nebbia, Italian, ca. 1536 - 1614 · late 16th century

The Crucifixion
Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection
Ludwig Schongauer

Christ Before Pilate, from series The Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Christ Before Pilate
Thomas Blanchet · ca. 1670–80

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · 1636

Roundel with Christ before Pilate
Artist not stated in the record · 1480–1500

Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · ca. 1848

Christ Brought Before Pontius Pilate
Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century · 17th century

Christ before Pilate
Unidentified (Italian) · 16th-17th century

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Christ before Pilate in front of his Palace, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi
Hans Schäufelein · 1507

Pilate Washes His Hands
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

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

Ecce Homo
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Architectural Canopy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Crowning of Thorns, illustration from "The Passion"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509

Roundel with Christ Condemned by Pilate
Artist not stated in the record · 1515–20

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Christ before Caiaphas, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511
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.