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 “The Agony in the Garden and The Betrayal (from Scenes from the Passion of Christ)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:30 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 Agony in the Garden and The Betrayal (from Scenes from the Passion of Christ)

The Agony in the Garden and The Betrayal (from Scenes from the Passion of Christ)

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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
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
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
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 on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden

The Agony in the Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden), from the Great Passion

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden), from the Great Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1498

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
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
Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Agony in the Garden, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Agony in the Garden

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

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
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
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
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

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
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

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

Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ

Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1485

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Christ Driving the Merchants (or Money Changers) from the Temple, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Driving the Merchants (or Money Changers) from the Temple, from The Little Passion Series

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

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. 1758 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483880 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 2026-08-27 21:30 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.