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 “Pilate Washing His Hands, 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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Pilate Washing His Hands, 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

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

Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

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

Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

The Resurrection, from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–1511

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Pilate Washing his Hands
Artist not stated in the record · 1585

The Crucifixion
Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

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

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

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

The Lamentation
Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

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

Pilate washing his hands, from The Passion
Lucas Cranach the Elder

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

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection
Ludwig Schongauer

Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850
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. 410 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. 1451908 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.