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 Caiaphas, from The Little Passion Series” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:29 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.
The Crucifixion, by Pietro Lorenzetti

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

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
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

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

Christ before Annas, from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Christ before the People (Ecce Homo), from The Little Passion Series

Christ before the People (Ecce Homo), from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion

Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

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 Herod, from The Little Passion Series

Christ before Herod, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano)

The Lamentation

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from The Little Passion Series

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

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
Christ Crowned with Thorns, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series

Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ Before the High Priest Caiaphas

Plaque with Christ Before the High Priest Caiaphas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

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
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Christ Washing the Feet, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Washing the Feet, from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
The Mocking of Christ, from The Little Passion Series

The Mocking of Christ, from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Christ Driving the Merchants (or Money Changers) from the Temple, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Driving the Merchants (or Money Changers) from the Temple, 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. 172 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. 1440121 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 21:29 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.