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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Christ on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1509

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

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

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

The Nailing to the Cross, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

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

The Descent from the Cross (The Deposition), from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

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

The Lamentation, from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

The Crucifixion
Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

Triptych with the Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ
Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1485

The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

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

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Christ at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1509–11

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

Christ before Annas, 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. 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.