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 “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

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.
Pilate Washing His Hands, by Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Little Passion Series

Pilate Washing His Hands, 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 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
Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands

Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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
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
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
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
The Resurrection, from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Resurrection, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 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. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washing his Hands

Pilate Washing his Hands

Artist not stated in the record · 1585

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

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

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 Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

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
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
Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

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

The Lamentation

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

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

Pilate washing his hands, from The Passion

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washes His Hands

Pilate Washes His Hands

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection, by Ludwig Schongauer

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection

Ludwig Schongauer

Public domainThe Met
Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

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. 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.