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 “Diptych with Scenes from the Passion” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:29 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.
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
The Flagellation, from The Little Passion Series

The Flagellation, from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

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
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

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
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series

The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

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
Agony in the Garden, from The Engraved Passion, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Agony in the Garden, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1508

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

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
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
Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1508

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
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 15th-16th century

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
Sketches for a Passion, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketches for a Passion

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S., by L. S.

Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S.

L. S. · 1518

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Poor Cupid, by Edmonia Lewis, born Greenbush (now Rensselaer), NY 1844-died London, England 1907

Poor Cupid

Edmonia Lewis, born Greenbush (now Rensselaer), NY 1844-died London, England 1907 · modeled ca. 1872, carved 1876

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. 7122 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1449805 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 01:29 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.