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 on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:50 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 with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series

Christ on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509

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 on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series

Christ on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

Public domainThe Met
The Nailing to the Cross, from The Little Passion Series

The Nailing to the Cross, 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
The Descent from the Cross (The Deposition), from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Descent from the Cross (The Deposition), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
The Lamentation, from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Lamentation, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

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

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Public domainThe Met
Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ, by Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491

Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ

Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1485

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

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
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, from The Little Passion Series

The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, 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 at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series

Christ at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing the Children, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ Blessing the Children

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

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
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. 656 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. 1814443 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 17:50 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.