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. 12 shown for “Roundel with Christ before Pilate” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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
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
Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation, by Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875

Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation

Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · ca. 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · 1636

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate, by Unidentified (Italian)

Christ before Pilate

Unidentified (Italian) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Pilate Washes His Hands

Pilate Washes His Hands

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen, by Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1519

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 261762 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.